Word: interring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...America with higher-type diplomacy, said as much in a report he forwarded to White House Chamberlain Harry Hopkins. Hopkins read the report, showed it to Franklin Roosevelt. Roosevelt asked the 32-year-old Rockefeller to visit him. Upshot of the call: Rockefeller's appointment as coordinator of Inter-American Affairs and the beginning of an intermittent 15-year government career...
During those years, Nelson Rockefeller: ¶As Inter-American Affairs coordinator (1940-44), drew up a blacklist that steered U.S. businessmen away from 1,800 Latin American Nazi-serving firms, also arranged loans by which Latin Americans could buy out German interests. ¶ While Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs (1944-45), fought for a clause in the United Nations Charter far more vital than he knew; thinking primarily of Latin American relations, he enlisted the aid of Michigan's late, great Senator Arthur Vandenberg, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, in providing for the right...
...purposes of the club, according to Horne, are to present a "socialist world view" to Harvard students; to stimulate talk of socialism; and to provide a platform at Harvard for socialism advocates. Intended activities are: a speaker series, inter-and intra-club debates, and publication of current-events newsletters. Horne also suggested a fund-raising entertainment series...
Competition for Fulbright and Inter-American Cultural Convention Awards for the academic year 1959-60 is now open, Lawrence G. Jones, chairman of the Fulbright Committee, announced, and will close...
...policy of "athletics for all" had been announced in 1919, when compulsory PT was instituted for freshmen. Seven years later the University granted real recognition to inter-collegiate athletics, and assumed a measure of direct control over the heretofore autonomous program. In 1926, William J. Bingham '16 was made the first Director of Athletics...