Word: historians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Touch. Of course, notes Historian James MacGregor Burns, the people have always grumbled loudly at Government; back in 1932 Challenger Franklin Roosevelt attacked President Hoover's bureaucracy and big spending. But now the complaints are that the Government has lost contact with the people. Says Jack Spalding, editor of the Atlanta Journal: "It's not that the people are especially mad at Washington. Rather it is that Washington is so out of touch with the country. Those elitists up there are in orbit by themselves." Minneapolis Tribune Editor Charles Bailey feels that Washington fails to understand that...
...awarding Bailyn the honorary "Degree of Humane Letters," Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. praised the 53-year-old historian as an "interpreter of the colonial age" whose "clarity of mind and pen bring a rare pattern of coherence and wholeness to our understanding of the American past...
...House to protest Nixon's 1972 Christmas bombing of North Viet Nam. He has preached to Presidents, helped bury them, prayed with them and counseled them. He has put his cathedral into governmental life, opened the Gothic chasms to Methodists, Jews and Billy Graham. Dean Sayre is theologian, historian and a bit of a power broker. He is worried -but fascinated by the political drama all about...
Morison served as a private in the U.S. Army infantry in World War I, and was the U.S. Navy's official historian during World...
...police" were nothing but night watchmen who set up the hue and cry if a fire broke out or a horse died in the street. But big cities began to suffer more noisome problems. By the 1820s one out of every 65 Bostonians was, according to Haverford College Historian Roger Lane, engaged in selling liquor. The dozen "houses of infamous character" that nourished in the West End of Boston were raided in 1823 by a party of citizens led by Mayor Josiah Quincy. In 1837 a riot between volunteer firemen and an Irish funeral procession was so serious that...