Word: franklin
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Hall, who was one of three student members of the faculty search committee for Afro-American Studies, points to a failed attempt to court University of Chicago historian John Hope Franklin as an example of this trend...
...sent out 'feelers' to [Franklin], but he wasn't interested," Hall says. "He said, very diplomatically, that he had never been offered a position in Harvard's history department and that was his field...
Included in the supplement was a letter of appreciation form the U.S. State Department to Dean of the Faculty Franklin L. Ford...
...paralyzed observers, the faculty and administrators tried to persuade protesters to peacefully end the takeover. Speaking through a bullhorn on the steps of Widener Library, then-Dean of the Faculty Franklin L. Ford demanded that all student leave the building...
President Franklin Roosevelt approved and in April 1942 dispatched Marshall and presidential adviser Harry Hopkins to persuade Churchill in London. The great war leader of Britain and his generals certainly wanted the U.S. to defeat Germany first, before turning to Japan, and did not want to put off the Americans by disputing strategy. So the British agreed to the invasion of Europe as something they intended to do -- only not right away. With searing memories of the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940 and of horrifying losses at the Somme and Passchendaele in World War I, the British shrank from binding...