Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gallery spectators cheered-a rare event in the Senate-Northern Democrats, milled about in handshaking, back-slapping merriment because they believe they have a big issue in public power. But the rejoicing was premature. It was doubtful whether the bill could get by the House. If it did, it would still have to get by the President-and insiders firmly predicted an Eisenhower veto...
Political crisis is Europe's portion after three wars (two world and one cold), but the crises would be of a different order if old Europe were not becoming a more comfortable place to live in than ever before, and this fact is a historical event as important as Stalin's death...
...bars and press clubs around the world, United Press staffers gathered this week to celebrate an event that was uniquely of their own making: the United Press Associations' 50th anniversary. If the U.P. men bragged more and drank more than most newsmen at play, they could be said merely to be obeying the deep competitive urge that has made their hardfisted, bustling wire service second in size only to the 109-year-old Associated Press-and often ahead of it in covering the news...
Oakly, however, stayed put and prospered. From its location on a hill in the town of Georgetown, it watched every event that occurred in Washington from the time of Jefferson's first administration to the present. In 1940, however, Dumbarton Oaks lost its domestic magnificence and became a part of Harvard University. It was donated to Harvard by its owners since 1920, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, who specified that it be made a center for the study of early Christian and early Byzantine antiquities. To further this end, the Blisses donated their own collection and library...
They will address the annual luncheon of the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research, and the Harvard Law School Association. The event is scheduled for 12 noon in Harkness Quadrangle of the Graduate Center...