Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dodd attacked the Ford Foundation for its "dubious staff and its support of Communism and socialist propaganda." One witness, sympathetically questioned by the chairman, attacked the Kinsey Report, financed by a foundation grant, as a force for weakening American morals, and another criticized Gunnar Myrdal's book "An American Dilemma" because it saw too much that is shoddy in our society...
...District courts should require school authorities to "make a prompt and reasonable start toward full compliance." Once such a start is made, the court may grant "additional time" if the school authorities can prove that they are hampered by problems of "administration, school plant, transportation, personnel, revision of school districts, local law and regulations...
...boulevards and byways that empty into Tin Pan Alley, few are as celebrated as Beale Street in Memphis, Tenn. Nobody knows who the original Beale was, but the street was once a fashionable place where wealthy white men built their mansions. During the Civil War, General Ulysses Grant planned the siege of Vicksburg from headquarters on Beale Street. But its real fame and flavor began after Reconstruction and the yellow fever epidemic of 1876-1878, when the white man moved away, and the street became the Main Stem of Memphis' darktown. The night life and mayhem, and, above...
...soon he was accepting loans from the U.S. and Britain, making trade agreements with Italy, getting loans from the Export-Import Bank. After the drought of 1950, Tito brusquely applied for a U.S. emergency grant and got $69 million. But Yugoslavia, Tito boasted, "stayed faithful to our principles . . . giving no concessions, making no withdrawal from our Marxist line...
Christian G. Wolff '55 has received a Fulbright grant to study Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Florence, the University has announced...