Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sponsors of the letter-Herbert C. Kelman, Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, and Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science-had intended to circulate the letter to all 780 Faculty members. They asked for a response by last Friday...
...Donald P. Warwick, lecturer in Social Relations; Philip M. Weinstein, assistant professor of English; James D. White, assistant professor of Chemistry; George H. Williams, Hollis Professor of Divinity; Thomas H. Wilson, professor of Physiology; Ronald G. Witt, assistant professor of History; Laurence Wylie, professor of the Civilization of France; Herbert C. Kelman, Cabot Professor of Social Ethics; and Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science...
Effective Manager. As was true of another noted Republican before him, Herbert Hoover, history would have treated Dewey more kindly if he had never run for President. The son of an Owosso, Mich., newspaper publisher, Dewey was educated at the University of Michigan and Columbia University. After winning third place in a national contest as a college baritone, he studied voice in New York City, considered an operatic career (Critic Deems Taylor liked Dewey's voice but said he sang without "enough impulse"). Instead Dewey settled on law and swiftly achieved prominence. A skilled trial lawyer who could wither...
Dewey went back into private practice, which by 1935 was netting him more than $50,000 a year. He left that cozy career to accept an appointment from Democratic Governor Herbert H. Lehman as a special prosecutor to attack racketeers. He badgered rackets victims into testifying against their tormentors by threatening them with income tax and contempt of court charges, and was able to boast that he "never lost a witness" to underworld retribution. He rarely lost a case, either: at one point he ran up 72 convictions in 73 trials...
...contradicting Rosovsky's statement, said that the faculty did indeed have an anti-radical political bias. To support this he read parts of a letter of recommendation written by Professor Richard E. Caves to the department of economics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook about Herbert M. Cintis, then a graduate student...