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President Lincoln and Johnson did not include Negro suffrage in their Reconstruction schemes. It was the so-called radical group in Congress, who wanted to insure Union party control of southern states who argued most heatedly for Negro suffrage. In 1870 the Fifteenth amendment was adopted stating: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous conditions of servitude...
...attracted a creditable number of enthusiasts beyond the 25 Harvard concentrators. "Art of the Nineteenth Century" and "Architecture of the Americas" were well enough attended last term to demand the large downstairs lecture room in the Fogg Museum; more obscure fields like "Mediaeval Art" and "Italian Painting of the Fifteenth Century" had gatherings large enough to be scheduled in the ample upstairs lecture room...
...Crimson will enter the game with a nine and six record and the fifteenth best defense in the nation, according to the latest statistics. B.C. has an even all record...
Later that year, Twining swung through Washington expecting rest leave, instead got command of the new Fifteenth Air Force in Italy, engineered the heavy bomb raids on the Axis' Balkan underbelly, notably on Rumania's Ploesti oil refineries. After V-E day, briefly succeeded Curtis Le-May as commander of the Twentieth Air Force in the Pacific, four months later took over as boss of the Air Materiel Command, Wright Field. In 1947, Twining got command of the Alaskan theater, in 1950 became General Van-denberg's Vice Chief of Staff, and in June 1953, Chief...
Kelso had another exclusive on the appointment of President-Emeritus James B. Conant as High Commissioner to Germany last February. Compare the Post articles on the confirmation of Conant with the regular Associated Press stories, and you will find the AP's lead often buried in the fifteenth or sixteenth paragraphs of the Post. The Post deemed significant the fact that "Conant appeared to be talking nervously over the phone" after appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The day the AP reported Conant's confirmation virtually certain, the Post headlined PROTESTS MOUNT OVER CONANT, and Kelso predicted the fury...