Word: delta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practice of allowing a man to be a member of more than one undergraduate social fraternity once existed at Harvard. Baird's Manual of American Fraternities verifies this as it names T.R. as a member of both Deke and Alpha Delt. As a result, Delta Kappa Epsilon honors Roosevelt as one of its greatest members, and we do not feel inclined to allow Alpha Delta Phi exclusive claim...
Theodore Roosevelt was not a member of Alpha Delta Phi at Harvard. Rather a most illustrious member of Delta Kappa Epsilon...
Commission decisions often bear little relation to the facts uncovered in months or years of hearings. After three years in preparation and hundreds of thousands of dollars in expense, the CAB examiner in 1956 recommended Delta Air Lines for a New York-Florida run, specifically disqualified Northeast Airlines. CAB commissioners picked Northeast. Reason: Administration policy was to get domestic carriers off subsidy, and Northeast was getting $1,800,000 a year in subsidy...
...Kuettner's byline was the story's best recommendation. He has amassed 45 file drawers on racial problems since spotting desegregation as a looming battle in 1945, roamed 3,600 miles through the South in 1956 to write a series on integration that won him Sigma Delta Chi's top award for general reporting...
...moved out of Harvard, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, becoming a college boxer, courting and later marrying a Chestnut Hill belle named Alice Lee, he suffered all the torments of power hunger and high ideals that had no place of power to go. One night at an Alpha Delta Phi committee meeting, T.R. told his fraternity brothers: "I am going to try to help the cause of better government . . . But I don't know exactly...