Word: drives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Council last night overrode objections of the Combined Charities committee and voted to include World University Services among the list of "recommended" organizations in this year's fund drive. A move to eliminate the Crusade for Freedom from the list was defeated...
Lawrence P. Ekpebu '60, urged that WUS be included because "it is an organization which is close to university students and has a strong claim to our money and our support." Richard Crystal '62, co-chairman of the drive, argued that WUS had received virtually no students support last year and should remain on the "suggested" rather than the "recommended" list. Students may donate to any charity they choose...
...rain abated slightly for the opening minutes of the first period, Neil Sclater-Booth started a prolonged passing-off drive that carried half the field and ended with wing Ted Frembgen sprinting over for the try. The play, which came after only a minute and a half of action, was unquestionably the finest...
...church members of all the sensational and unsettling things [Dibelius] has said, preached and written," spluttered the West German Lutheran biweekly Stimme der Gemeinde (Voice of the Congregation). Bishop Lilje recoiled from his surprise package. "I cannot share Dibelius' views,'' he said. "One can't drive down the street any way one wants to." The board of managers of Dibelius' own Evangelical Church of Berlin and Brandenburg also stepped lightly out of the target area. "We cannot share [Dibelius'] interpretation," they advised member pastors. "The obedience required of us by Holy Writ in respect...
After Morgan's death in 1943, Henry Alexander went off to war as a vice chairman of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey in Europe, came back to begin his swift rise to the top. He became the protege of President George Whitney, who had foresightedly launched a recruiting drive for the young men who later became the bank's postwar bird dogs. Less than ten years after he joined the firm, Alexander was made executive vice president. Following in Whitney's footsteps, he moved up to the presidency in 1950, when Whitney became chairman, took over...