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Dean Ford announced the appointment of four men to the rank of assistant professor yesterday. The new appointees are Thomas E. Skidmore in History, and Dwight H. Perkins, Gerald D. Rosenthal, and Lester D. Taylor in Economics...
Subsequent United States' support of the Franco regime was attacked by Allen Guttmann of Amherst College. "When Dwight D. Eisenhower went to Madrid and shook hands with Franco--the first head of state to do so since Hitler--I felt there was something wrong. When we put bases in Spain, I felt ashamed to be an American...
...Canal Zone riots, the U.S. and Panama ended their silly semantic squabble and agreed "to seek prompt elimination of the causes of conflict between the two countries without limitations or preconditions of any kind." Diplomatic relations were restored, and Johnson immediately named fellow Texan Robert B. Anderson, who was Dwight Eisenhower's second Secretary of the Treasury, as special U.S. emissary to work out "a just and fair agreement." As the new Ambassador to Panama, he named Latin American Peace Corps Director Jack Hood Vaughn, an ex-boxer and Marine captain. Said Johnson: "This is truly a great...
...cops clocked Warren G. Harding's car at 38 m.p.h. as it zipped through Hyattsville, Md. The speed limit was 15 m.p.h., but no arrest was made. After he left office, Harry Truman was stopped for cutting in front of a patrol car on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. And Dwight Eisenhower used to be in such a hurry to get from Washington to his Gettysburg farm that reporters insisted they sometimes hit 100 m.p.h. on narrow Maryland highways trying to keep up. In 1957, vigilant state cops ordered part of the presidential motorcade to pull over, told trailing reporters they...
...Woodrow Wilson, and Quaker Herbert Hoover. William Howard Taft, the last of four Unitarians to reach the White House, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the most recent of nine Episcopalians to become Chief Executive, were active in church affairs all their lives. Calvin Coolidge (the only Congregationalist President) and Dwight Eisenhower (who was reared in a sect called the River Brethren and became a Presbyterian largely because of his wife Mamie) joined churches only after their inaugurations. Nevertheless, more fervently than other modern leaders, they preached that the moral strength of U.S. democracy depends on a devout religious faith. John...