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Word: florello (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Committee to Help America by Aiding the Allies, but Conant still feels that "probably most of the alumni and surely the majority of the faculty felt as I did on the subject of intervention." Conant's stand was no matter of purely academic importance; he, Wendell Willkie, and Florello LaGuardia were the last three witnesses called by the Roosevelt Administration to support its position on the Lend-Lease Bill in the Spring of 1941. The bill passed, and shortly afterwards, FDR appointed Conant to establish better scientific liason with the British...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: James Bryant Conant: The Right Man, | 6/19/1952 | See Source »

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