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...documents as released are unsatisfactory for historians, because they are incomplete and because Wnston Churchill, one of the principals at the Conference, says they contain serious inaccuracies, Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, emeritus said...
...funeral of 82-year-old William Green, their longtime chief. As the labor leaders waited for the train, Green's successor, George Meany, bluntly announced that he had chosen William Schnitzler, of the Bakery Workers Union, to be secretary-treasurer of the federation. Old Dan Tobin, president emeritus of the Teamsters Union, objected angrily. But Meany was unshaken; the election of Schnitzler, he said, would be held the next day in Washington...
...establishment of the Byzantine chair stems in part, according to Huggins, from a letter sent by Charles Malik, Lebanese Ambassador to the U.N., to President Emeritus Conant in 1952. Malik wrote, "At the bottom of the great division in the world today certainly lies the spiritual estrangement between Rome and Byzantium which occurred a thousand years ago. The healing of this breach is an indispensable condition for real peace and understanding. I hope... Harvard will stand out in the Western Hemisphere as the place most clearly indicated for that purpose. I think such an act of charity on the part...
Horn also attacked as undemocratic the position of James B. Conant '14, President emeritus, on the selection of students for higher education. According to Horn, Conant once proposed that only about the top 25 percent in intellectual capacity be admitted to the traditional college...
American educators must give more attention to the gifted student, President Emeritus James B. Conant '14 said yesterday in the speech which he returned to the United States to deliver...