Word: gilberts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faure, who had appointed an able man to bring peace to Morocco and had then hung back from letting that man put through the reforms he demanded, condemned "this terror and savageness," and grimly warned of French retribution. In the Moroccan capital of Rabat, his appointee, French Resident General Gilbert Grandval, was shocked at the bloody collapse of his efforts to win a compromise...
...prisoner," he shrugs. "Either I stay in the office or in my room." Though his life is in constant danger, he refuses to carry a weapon. Yet Editor Mazzella entertains no thought of giving up his crusade. In fact, he hopes he may DC winning it. New Resident General Gilbert Grandval (TIME, Aug. 1) is already beginning to give Moroccans a start toward the moderate rule that Maroc-Presse has been demanding all along...
...Resident General Gilbert Grandval, sent from Paris to bring peace and a fair deal to restive Moroccans, acted like a man with no time to lose. The minute his plane stopped at Casablanca's airstrip, he jumped down from the plane, too impatient to wait until the ramp was shoved into place. In his first week, he fired nine of the protectorate's top French officials, "for essentially psychological reasons"; they were competent, he explained, but identified with the old, unpopular order. To Moroccan cheers, he declared a general amnesty for Bastille Day, freeing 77 political prisoners...
When the officials of Haverford College, on Pennsylvania's Main Line, tried to talk Geographer Gilbert Fowler White into taking over the presidency in 1946, he was about as reluctant as a candidate can be. At 34, he felt that he was much too young for the job; he was also much fascinated by geography, in which he took his doctorate (1942) at the University of Chicago. Nevertheless, White finally accepted-and proved to be as wrong about himself as he had been reluctant...
...time for, in fact, was his old love geography. Last week, convinced that "in a time when the pressure of world population upon natural resources is increasing and when the world's regions are more closely linked to each other," a geographer has a special role to play, Gilbert White decided to resign. His new post: professor of geography at the University of Chicago...