Word: fairbank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best people." But the Commentator's wives talked too much about New York; their husbands too much about isolationism. Townsfolk simplified it by calling them snobs. By summer "The Strangers" found more congenial company in such homes as the 40-room mansion of Socialite Novelist Janet Ayer Fairbank, ex-Democratic Committeewoman and No. i female America-Firster; the summer castles of the Mortons (salt), the Cranes (plumbing); the $1,000,000 Indian temple transported by the Maytags (washing machines) from the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 to Lake Geneva...
...notch teachers. And although they are not devoting their full time to teaching, they are retaining their full status, complete with salary. Men like Professor Kemble in the Physics Department, Professor Elliott, Dr. Gordon, Assistant Professor Fainsod, Professor Emerson in the Government Department, Professors Langer, Fay, and Fairbank in History, and Economics Professors Mason and Black are holding important government positions. Because of their part or full-time absence, many courses have had to be radically reorganized or omitted. The tutorial staff, already pitifully small, has been further depleted. There are ten Government courses and nine. History courses, notable History...
Hardest hit of the departments is History, which will be missing men such as William L. Langer, Coolidge Professor of History, and John K. Fairbank, instructor in History, and Far-Eastern expert. Langer has been appointed chief of the Department of Special Information. Other men from Harvard aiding Langer and Fairbank in analyzing and assimilating the news of the world for the personal use of the President and Congress are Donald C. McKay, who was an assistant professor of History last year, and Edward Y. Hartshorne, instructor in Sociology...
...enclose a check for one dollar to pay for this statement, --that the slick defeatism of Lawrence Dennis is based squarely on his belief that a Nazi type fascism in America is not worth opposing--is, in fact, desirable. The rest of the argument easily follows from that. J.K. Fairbank '29 Faculty Instructor in History
...course this position does not mention economic opportunities in Southeast Asia which must by all means be given Japan whenever really peaceful negotiations begin,--sometime in the future). J. K. Fairbank '29, Faculty Instructor and Tutor in the Department of History...