Word: grovers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Menlo Park, Calif. After beginning his career as an editorial writer for the New York Evening Post, Nevins gained an early reputation through a number of historical books and in 1931 became De Witt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia. Nevins' first Pulitzer came in 1933 for Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage, his second in 1937 for Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Grant Administration. The last of his eight-volume history of the U.S. from 1847 through the Civil War will be published this year. Perhaps Nevins' most highly regarded contribution was to organize...
...acted in the interests of oil before. As long ago as 1893, Grover Cleveland intervened in Brazil at the insistence of Standard Oil. In Iran, in 1953 (when "guess-who" was Vice President), the CIA engineered a coup against the popularly-supported government of Mossadegh, after that nationalist leader began nationalizing Anglo-Iranian Oil, the largest Western firm in that country. The CIA restored the present Shah to the throne, and a year later an Oil Consortium was created through negotiations between the Shah and American companies (the British and Dutch were effectively excluded from those negotiations). The result...
...Grover P. Walker, co-chairman of Afro, said that the faculty vote on exams "has not affected the reasons why we struck or our grievances. We still intend to resolve these grievances and change the administrative mechanisms that make these grievances possible...
...Grover Walker, co-chairman of Business School Afro, said "We felt that on the basis of the injustices that we had highlighted, that we should concern ourselves in part with trying to solve some of the problems of racism on the Business School campus...
...Grover Walker, co-chairman of Afro, said, "We have discussed this with the HarBus and we have an understanding with them." It is uncertain whether this understanding will lead to Afro's looking over every story dealing with blacks. With its show of force, Afro has knocked out the baby teeth of the HarBus which grew while Chokel was editor. Schmidt will now have to decide between a toothless paper or a stronger set of permanent teeth which will have a lot more bite...