Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harris is engaged in this study under a Ford Foundation grant. On the basis of his visits this year to more than 60 Eastern schools, mostly private, he is finishing the first volume of the study...
Refusing to accept Federal funds under a "loyalty oath" provision while mouthing platitudes on academic freedom, the Trustees of Amherst College last week rejected a $1340 grant received under the student loan program of the National Defense Education Act. Their action dramatizes wide-spread objection to the clause requiring every loan applicant to file an affidavit that he "does not believe in, and is not a member of and does not support any organization that believes in or teaches, the overthrow of the U.S. government by force or violence or by any illegal or unconstitutional means...
Featured along with Street of Shame are a conventionally violent cartoon and a Henry Fonda-narrated short about Grant Wood...
...Bethlehem Steel Corp. lurks behind a mahogany shingle reading, "The Registered Office of Bethlehem Steel Co. Limited, Overseas Underwriters Limited." Similar shingles hang outside Nassau offices of outfits such as Crucible Steel, U.S. Steel (which calls itself Navios), Whirlpool, Cummins Diesel, RCA, J. I. Case (agricultural equipment) and Grant Advertising. Outboard Marine International (Evinrude and Johnson outboard motors) has a staff of 55, including U.S. citizens, Englishmen, Canadians and a handful of Bahamian Comptometer operators. In air-conditioned comfort behind a Bay Street brass plate, Outboard Representative James Butler says: "We are a completely international company. Europeans come here...
Landau came back to defeat Roesler in the low hurdles, but it was left for Gordon to climax the meet. After a succession of good Army legs and poor Crimson stick passes had given the Cadets what looked like a secure 12-yard lead, Gordon overhauled Grant Schaefer in another stirring finish for the Crimson's final five points...