Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found guilty and sentenced to hang. A great deal of doubt and bitterness surrounded the case, and Columnist Mark Sullivan wrote that it "fanned into a new flame for the moment the old animosities of the North and South of 50 years ago." The U.S. Supreme Court refused to grant a writ of habeas corpus, but a dissenting opinion-written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes with Charles Evans Hughes concurring-caused a sensation. "It is our duty," said the minority justices, "to declare lynch law as little valid when practiced by a regularly drawn jury as when administered...
Standard Oil Co. (Indiana), which gave more than $350,000 in 1954, matches its scholarships with equal gifts to each campus. U.S. Steel last year gave $700,000 in unrestricted gifts with the hope that "the institutions find their own individual means of using a portion of each grant for faculty development and compensation." Since 1953 Bethlehem Steel has given $321,000 to the colleges-if privately endowed-of young employees who have completed the company's tough collegiate training program. The Columbia Broadcasting System is giving $32,000 to the alma maters of its own selected executives...
...various accredited private institutions that have 20 or more graduates at G.M., and to a number of public institutions with a "substantial" number of alumni, the company will provide 250 four-year scholarships each year, will add a $500 to $800 grant to each private college involved. The colleges and universities will pick their own students, but no one campus will get more than five scholarships in any one year...
...Hawaii. To get a scholarship, each student must take a competitive examination given by the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, N.J., must then pass review by a special panel of educators. Each private college and university picked by the students will also get the additional $500 to $800 grant...
Indeed, TASS, the Soviet news agency, has capitalized on the State Department's refusal to grant the visas, and the Communist-controlled International Union of Students has used the story to woo students from neutral nations into its organization. But the State Department can easily refute this propaganda by granting entrance visas to the Soviet editors. The well-chaperoned visitors surely could discover no defense secrets from student newspapers and student councils, and the trip would increase U.S. prestige...