Word: fulbrighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture. He received Speaker Sam Rayburn's blessing, but little more. The House, which knows Patman as an easy-money man who blames most of the world's troubles on big bankers, handily voted down an enabling resolution. Another candidate, Senate Banking and Currency Chairman J. William Fulbright, was equally unpromising. Two years ago Fulbright and his committee undertook an investigation of the stock market, accomplished little more than a sharp drop in market prices...
...University students and two instructors have received Fulbright grants for study abroad next year, Lawrence G. Jones, assistant dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and chairman of the University Fulbright Award Committee, announced yesterday...
...More Fulbright grants may be announced later, Dean Jones said...
...such it is the most effective vehicle for expressing student opinion and obtaining student interests. Even though the NSA does not maintain a Washington lobby, it does have considerable influence on national legislation. For example, in the past few years, the NSA has been instrumental in keeping appropriations for Fulbright scholarships at a high level. The NSA, while it represents a generally voteless segment of the population, has repeatedly requested increased tax deduction for students, and the institution of a federal scholarship program. Equality of opportunity for students of all races in American universities has constituted another successful NSA campaign...
...Fulbright awards have previously been received by Charles P. Segal '57, Robert H. Secrist '57, and John E. Ratte '57 who accepted a Henry Fellowship for study in England...