Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week would, Mr. King hoped, be short. But with San Francisco in the offing, a parliamentary discussion of Canadian foreign policy seemed inevitable. As a starter, Mr. King was ready with the names of Canadian delegates. Some would be representatives of the people: CCF Leader Major James Coldwell; Gordon Graydon, Tory leader in Parliament; Justice Minister (and Quebecker) Louis Stephen St. Laurent; Senator James H. King. A woman would be chosen, too. Some of the delegates would be experts-men like Hume Wrong and Norman Robertson, suave and able top-rankers in the External Affairs Department; men like Lester...
...discussion of the motives leading to homicide, Gordon W. Allport, professor of Psychology, revealed Wednesday that the average student at Harvard regarded self-defense as the most compelling cause for killing condoned by society. This statement is based on the results of a poll of three hundred students studying psychology under Professor Allport, which was conducted on March 17 in a class of three hundred students studying Dynamic Psychology...
...Canada. When a reporter asked for names, Mr. King sidestepped. He said he felt that the opposition delegates should be picked from among men who sit in the House of Commons. The meaning was unmistakable. Major James Coldwell, leader of the socialist CCF, would go. So, probably, would Gordon Graydon, Parliamentary leader of the Tories. But John Bracken, national Tory leader who is not a member of Parliament, would stay at home...
Benevenuto Cellini's amorous escapades rank as high in history as his creations of art; Max Gordon's current version may not be authentic, but it is lavish, tasteful theatre, literally bulging at the seams in an effulgent abundance of talent. Ira Gershwin's witty lyrics match the temper of Weill's music well, and Maurice Abravahel gets racing vitality from the orchestra. Catherine Littlefield has met the choreography assignment with dancing that whips merrily along at a tingling clip. Raoul Pene DuBois prepared dazzling costumes, Jo Mielziner splendiferous settings, and to top it all off, the staging was handled...
...needed someone to communicate his ideas, help work out his plans. Donald became his adviser. A newspaperman, he had arrived in China in 1902, via Sydney's Daily Telegraph, to go to work for Hong Kong's China Mail. He was Shanghai correspondent for James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald when Dr. Sun heard about him. Donald, profoundly moved by the revolution and by the inability of Shanghai papers to grasp its meaning, jumped...