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With the presentation of a souvenir gavel to its president this week, the Student Council officially closed its past year. The year has not been a failure; it has been far from an unqualified success. As always, the Council has some achievements to recall with satisfaction. In the coming year, however, it is even more important that the new Council remember the mistakes of the past year. For 1953 was a significant year with attacks on universities, Harvard in particular, imposing increased responsibilities on the Council. To the members' credit, they recognized these responsibilities. But in meeting the problems...
...India Edwards, the party's director of women's activities and insistent crusader for more women in good political jobs. At the national convention in Chicago last year, she berated the restive delegates for being "extremely rude" to speakers, and then she seized the chairman's gavel and banged the hall into silence when the buzz of conversation began to drown out her own speech. Some Democrats had a name for indomitable India: "The Tugboat Annie of politics...
That night, at the annual banquet, the A.B.A. presented its gold medal for jurisprudence to ex-President Holman-for his Bricker Amendment leadership. Then outgoing President Robert G. Storey, 59, of Dallas handed over his gavel to incoming President William J. Jameson, 55, a Billings, Mont, lawyer, and the diamond jubilee of the A.B.A. was over...
...chief executive, he has been quick to bang the gavel on rebellious fingers. In February, when he discovered that his department chiefs had gone over his head to ask the legislature for $100 million more than he had budgeted, he gave them a severe dressing-down and a reminder: "I must reluctantly but sharply call to your attention the fact that the governor has veto power ... to reject items in the appropriation bill." He also demanded and got tighter controls around the statehouse, on everything from inventories to excessively long coffee breaks. The result was a new realization that...
...urgent call from Washington brought Speaker Joe Martin flying down from Massachusetts in a hurry. Senator Styles Bridges, conducting the opening hearings of his investigation into Kaiser-Frazer's C-119 contract (see BUSINESS), left his gavel with Vermonter Ralph Flanders and rushed off to the White House. President Eisenhower received Martin, Bridges and seven other Republican House and Senate leaders in the Cabinet Room. He had called them together, he explained, to dis cuss a rider which the Senate Appropriations Committee had unexpectedly at tached to the $1.1 billion appropriation for the Departments of State, Justice and Commerce...