Word: edwin
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...Governors who lost out: Montana Democrat John E. Erickson in 1934; Nevada Democrat Edward P. Carville in 1946; Wyoming Democrat John Joseph Hickey in 1962; New Mexico Republican Edwin L. Mechem in 1964; Oklahoma Democrat J. Howard Edmondson in 1964. Kentucky Democrat Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler won senatorial elections...
...Edwin E. Moise, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education and Mathematics and a member of the Committee, said yesterday that the meeting "will not only reassert our right to criticize the conduct of the Vietnamese war but also use this right to make substantive criticisms of the war itself...
...House Un-American Activities Committee, five Southerners joined the other four members in unanimously approving a full-scale investigation of the Ku Klux Klan. According to Chairman Edwin E. Willis, a Louisiana Democrat, a preliminary study showed that "shocking crimes are carried out by highly secret action groups within the Klans." And despite the committee's disrepute in some quarters for its blunt and into-every-corner antiCommunism, there were signs that it might prove the sharpest ax on Capitol Hill for cutting the Klan down to size. "Klanism is incompatible with Americanism," said Chairman Willis. "The South...
...reaction of University President Clark Kerr was slower. Two regents from Los Angeles, Board Chairman Edward Carter and Oilman Edwin Pauley, telephoned him and told him that the student offenders must be disciplined by the university too. Kerr agreed that discipline was due, but hesitated. Since last December's student uprising, it has become customary at Cal to let civil courts handle students involved in violations of the law. Kerr feared that adding a university punishment would be taken as breaking an understanding with the thousands of students who had crusaded against such "double jeopardy." He foresaw a renewal...
AMERICAN CHROME by Edwin Gilbert. 448 pages. Putnam...