Word: held
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundred and twenty-five students from major eastern colleges attended the thirteenth annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton Colloquium held at the University over the weekend. Theme of the meeting was "Jewish Life as Reflected in Modern Jewish Literature...
Having thus completed a trip marred only by the playing conditions at Annapolis, the squad will go into action again this week-end in the United States Championships in Boston. A week later, the long-awaited match against Yale will be held in Hemenway Gymnasium...
...F.D.R. went farther and farther to the left, Astor could not go along, and soon the magazine Today, which Astor had founded along with F.D.R. Braintruster Raymond Moley to boost F.D.R., was calling the Hudson Valley neighbor "an irresponsible radical." Today merged in 1937 with Newsweek, in which Astor held the controlling 60%-plus interest...
Venezuela's problems officially become President Romulo Betancourt's problems this week. Before a skeleton crew of delegates from overseas-held down at the economy-minded President-elect's own request, he will get into the ceremonial sash and inherit the headaches left by ousted Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez...
...government land office, his niece Soledad Ydígoras as chief of procurement for school supplies, and Julia's son Boris as assistant secretary to the President. But Ydígoras switched sides abruptly and grabbed Julia's resignation, announcing that he was heeding "opinions widely held by educational groups." Darkly, Julia declared that "Communists and Mexicans" were against her, announced that "I am no longer to be called Ydígoras -I am ashamed of that name...