Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...light of Senator McCarthy's unusual activities relative to that group photograph and the "secret" FBI report, I should like to recommend that some enterprising university grant him a special degree as "Doctor of Letters and Photographs...
...Fund for Republic, when first set up on a grant from the Ford Foundation last summer, prompted chairman Reece to promise to "get it." He accused it of being out "to get investigating committees...
...ceremony lasted no more than twelve minutes, and there was no diplomatic glass of champagne afterwards. The French had long been unwilling to grant their Vietnamese subjects even this much independence; they had delayed the agreement right up to the Geneva Conference, when it finally became necessary to remove the stigma of "colonial war" from the Indo-China campaign. Then Vietnamese Chief of State Bao Dai, who has lifted do-nothingism into a career, had balked for three days on the grounds that the package would probably be undone at Geneva by the French. Despite last week's agreement...
...Rockefeller Foundation made a grant of $525,000 to Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary to set up a Program of Advanced Religious Studies under which 20 to 25 young religious leaders from all over the world will spend a year studying and getting to know each other. CJ In a new encyclical titled Sacra Vir-ginitas Pope Pius XII emphasized the superiority of virginity to marriage for clergy and religious orders and for those of the laity who would consecrate themselves entirely to God. "Sacred virginity and perfect chastity consecrated to the service of God," the encyclical said, "certainly...
...Kessler said that the grant now would undoubtedly be passed by the Committee, as would the proposal to hold next year's Combined Charities Drive in the spring term, "when there are no football weekends...