Word: griswold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...School Dean Erwin N. Griswold has called for a peace-time draft program which would by-pass youths of 18, and singled out the School's foreign students for special praise in his annual report...
Refuting the views of former President Conant, Griswold agreed with the principle of universal military training but asserted that "despite the approach of manhood, boys of eighteen are not men." Conant has always been a staunch advocate of "a universal military service law requiring every able-bodied young man to enter the armed forces at eighteen or on graduation from high school...
...Dusen has been a friend of mine for many years, and I want to commend you heartily upon an excellent cover" story [April 19] ... It combined the ecumenical and theological movements of our time with the human interest, biographical data of a single individual. . . (THE REV.) CLAYTON T. GRISWOLD New York City...
...Senate's 165-year history, it has had just seven women members.* Last week an eighth name was added to the list. To fill the vacancy created by the death of Republican Dwight Palmer Griswold, Nebraska's Governor Robert B. Crosby appointed Mrs. Eva Bowring (rhymes with now ring), owner and operator of an 8,000-acre cattle ranch at Merriman, 315 miles northwest of Omaha...
...Bowring's interest in politics came from her second husband, for many years a county commissioner and a state legislator. (He once was appointed to the state legislature to succeed Dwight Griswold.) She was a Republican precinct worker for 20 years, then county chairman; since 1946, she has been vice chairman of the Nebraska Republican State Central Committee. To get to political meetings on the western Nebraska plains, she has traveled by plane, car, snow sled and on horseback. Says she: "I've gone to those meetings in everything but a manure spreader...