Word: halifax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan last week, a distinguished British elder statesman rose to address the Foreign Policy Association. As wartime ambassador to Washington, Lord Halifax had been entrusted by Winston Churchill with a crucial job in building wartime cooperation between the U.S. and Britain. Halifax, now 70, spoke with grave pride of "the close companionship, in peace as in war, of your people and mine...
...occasion for famous outsiders-presidents or prime ministers or politicians. The most important guests who showed up were all in the academic family. Lord Halifax had come in scarlet robe to represent Grandfather Oxford. President James B. Conant was on hand for Father Harvard. And 38 presidents, deans, and professors had come in behalf of the 41 daughter campuses that Yale-men had either founded or first presided over (among them: President Harold W. Dodds of Princeton, James P. Baxter of Williams, Deane W. Malott of Cornell, Detlev Bronk of Johns Hopkins...
President Conant will join in the celebration of Yale's 250th anniversary by speaking at the Convocation exercises at 3 p.m. today in New Haven. Other speakers are A. Whitney Griswold, Yale President, and Lord Halifax, Chancellor of Oxford. The CRIMSON adds to the festivities with a feature on page...
...Lord Halifax, former English ambassador to the United States and present chancellor of Oxford, will visit the University from October 25 through 27. Halifax is in this country to attend the 250th anniversary of the founding of Yale. Harvard gave him an honorary degree in 1941; he was ambassador in America from...
Scoop. In Halifax, Nova Scotia, the Mail-Star reported: "Mrs. J. E. Montgomery, Robie Street, will regret to learn that she is a patient in hospital...