Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...City of Cambridge claimed that it was equal to the emergency. Mayor Edward Sullivan had 30 snow plows in action at 7 p.m. In the College area, however, snow was rising rapidly in the streets and sidewalks, as the drifts defied the city's snow removal power. Not to be denied, a Cambridge official stated that "plows would remain in action 'til the battle...
...when Mordecai Johnson appeared before Congress to ask for more, one Representative bluntly warned him: "Young man, we may as well come to an understanding. We have no obligation to consider the needs of Howard." Johnson took his case to the Department of the Interior, persuaded Assistant Secretary Edward Finney that the Government had a "moral obligation." In 1928 President Coolidge finally signed a bill making the university's annual federal grant (now $3,000,000) permanent...
...trend to professionalism tends to destroy the one thing which made America a great nation; great discoveries and inventions are made primarily for service and not for monetary gain." Rusty said that somewhere in The Decline and Fall Historian Edward Gibbon listed the professionalizing of athletics as one of the five reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire. "And we are moving in that direction here. When we were youngsters, we played games because we wanted to, and won because we were the best, not because we expected to receive any extra rewards. Sometimes I wonder whether the average...
...firm of Pittston has caused an uprising within the armored car company. Brink's Chairman J. D. Allen has joined the raiders, sold 44,500 of his shares (at $36 apiece) to Pittston, which wants to merge the company with its own U.S. Trucking Co. But President H. Edward Reeves and four of the seven board members are fighting back, plan a showdown at the annual meeting March...
Council president Edward M. Abramson '57 stated last night that members of the administration had informally expressed a lack of sympathy with letting athletes participate in post-season contests...