Word: elects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time, the Provost asked that student opinion on the change be sampled and asked the Student Council to study the proposal and submit a report by Thanksgiving next fall. He called an expression of student opinion, essential to Faculty recommendation of the tradition-shattering change. President-elect of the Council Levin H. Campbell 3rd '48 said that the matter would be referred to the Council committee on Curriculum and Tenure for study...
Last week, as C.C.P.A.C. prepared to elect a new slate of permanent officers, the fur flew faster than ever. Charged Industrialist Miles Pennypacker of the executive council: "Pope has a Napoleonic complex." Charged ruffled Dr. Pope, from the sidelines: "The organization has fallen into the hands of a group in whom we have no confidence." Explained Mrs. Brubaker: "Because you don't like certain people you shouldn't call them Communists. . . . Dr. Pope . . . has such awful phobias about Reds and things like that...
Through the cloisters of Cairo's Cathedral of St. Mark filed an excited swarm of sweating, portly pashas to elect a new patriarch, the 114th successor to St. Mark as Pope of Egyptian Christianity. Among the electors, for the first time, were both Egyptian laymen and swarthy delegates of the Ethiopian Coptic Church. The choice: Archbishop Anba Yussab, 63, whose flowing white beard gives him a proper patriarchal dignity. Ordained 40 years ago in a desert monastery founded by St. Anthony, he later studied theology in Athens,* was an abbot in Jerusalem during World War I, when he showed...
...easier. Washington woke up to the fact that, France might be saved for the world the U.S. hoped to build. At week's end the Export-Import Bank was on the point of giving France new.credits of about $650,000,000. Washington was well aware that France will elect a new Assembly June 2. Said a U.S. Treasury official: "We'll see if loans have a favorable effect on politics...
...Filled. In a parlor of the Washington Hotel, the Stabilization Fund also held its first meeting last week. (Shortly, it will move into offices adjoining the bank.) First business was to elect Belgium's Camille Gutt (pronounced gut) the $30,000-a-year managing director -and half the Bank-Fund team. A small man with arched eyebrows and an engagingly informal manner, he has proved to be a financial wizard...