Word: fulbrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cooperation With Fulbright...
...Seminar also revealed that a joint arrangement has been made with the Fulbright Scholarship commission under which the two organizations will cooperate in certain areas where their programs overlap. If administrative details can be arranged, the plan would allow American college professors on Fulbright teaching fellowships in Austria to teach at the Seminar when they can get leave from their Austrian institution. It would also permit Austrian students who have been accepted to attend the Seminar on Fulbright grants, thus saving the Seminar the money that would ordinarily be required for those persons...
Asked if he questioned the right of the Senate to change its legislative mind, Arkansas' Senator William Fulbright said: "We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes...
William Thomson, James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic, called the present state of affairs "an impossible situation," with the outcome completely uncertain. He said that an Egyptian student here on a Fulbright Scholarship had told him that the new premier, Aly Maher Pasha, represented the aristocratic segment of the populace. The student added that Maher Pasha understood the British better than his predecessor, Mustapha Nahas Pasha of the popular Waflist party, and could deal with the foreigners more capably...
...five directors. A regular luncheon companion of Dawson's and of E. Merl (Mink Coat) Young's, Willett was willing to do some favors in return. To give big loans to politically correct companies and individuals, he switched RFC examiners and overrode his own reviewers. After the Fulbright committee's investigation of the RFC, the Senate, in February 1951, refused to confirm his appointment...