Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aide, Jesse L. Gill, head of the Mount Auburn Tenants' Union, also picketed Holyoke Center last January in an attempt to block Harvard's acquisition of the building, located at 122 Mt. Auburn St. The University finally won control of the building last spring, after a lengthy court fight with the previous owners...
Also charged to last year's Coop expenses were the costs of retailoring the new text book annex and Palmer St. itself to avoid a suit by Sheldon Dietz '41, another Palmer St. property owner. Dietz's fight against the annex delayed construction nine months, Morrill said, and cost the Coop about $400,000 extra...
...guilty verdicts came just a day after Dzu announced the formation of a "Fighting Front for Democracy" made up of six of the losing civilian candidates, who together had polled almost as many votes as Thieu and Ky. "We do not recognize the election," proclaimed Dzu, "it was fraudulent." If the Constituent Assembly validates the election, said Dzu, then "we shall fight in an orderly manner." Dzu will likely be able to keep fighting for a long time, despite the judgments against him. He has a month to appeal the verdicts, then two more higher courts through which...
Levi has thus been intimately involved in Chicago's traumatic leadership shifts: the academic brilliance and financial decline under Robert Hutchins, whom Levi admired; the civic-minded fight to rebuild crime-ridden slums surrounding the university under Lawrence Kimpton; the drive to regain academic stature and financial stability under Beadle. Levi last week left no doubt about what he will emphasize. Said he: "To be a great and exciting university requires, above all, a great faculty...
Stigma of Extremism. Word of Morgenthau's Draconian design leaked to the press. Goebbels began exhorting the Reich to fight even harder in the face of defeat, since Germans had nothing to lose by death; Republican Presidential Candidate Thomas E. Dewey claimed that Morgenthau's plan had given Hitler as much of a boost as "ten fresh German divisions." Roosevelt, who at one point had mused that it might be good to return Germany to the homespun-wool economy of Dutchess County in 1810, backed warily away from both the plan and its author. F.D.R. nonetheless adhered...