Word: ironclad
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...candidates came out ahead in 14 of 24 contests for the Republican Parish Executive Committee and won ten out of 56 seats on the State Central Commit tee. Neither of these bodies chooses delegates to the national convention, but the returns did seem to indicate a dent in the ironclad control exercised by pro-Taft National Committeeman John E. Jackson. On the basis of last week's result, Jackson's rival, John Minor Wisdom, said that half the state's 15 delegates would be for Ike. Jackson, however, seemed certain to hold at least nine and probably...
Lace on Her Petticoat (by Aimée Stuart; produced by Herman Shumlin) is a garrulous trifle from England about Victorian existence in Scotland. Harking back to the days of ironclad class distinctions and almost exultant snobbery, it chronicles the brief, foredoomed friendship that springs up between little Alexandra Carmichael, whose mother is a marchioness, and little Elspeth McNairn, whose widowed mother makes the marchioness' hats. Mrs. McNairn herself is courted by a workingman who drinks tea with his spoon in his cup; but though his spoon is in the wrong place, his heart is in the right...
...minimum terms on which the U.N. could hope for true peace seemed to be a complete Chinese withdrawal from the country, plus an ironclad guarantee of free elections in both North and South Korea. There seemed no chance this week that Peking and Moscow were ready to accept such terms. Both capitals, however, reported the Malik statement and Peking expressed "support...
...lengthy communication to the Council, Secretary of the Navy Francis Matthews and vice-Admiral Forrest P. Sherman said they "read with interest the resolution of the Cambridge City council," but that they feel that raising the ironclad would be a "long, tedious; extremely expensive" process, impossible to undertake at this time. But Councillor Foley told the CRIMSON that he still wants to raise the Monitor and moor it on the Charles River. Other Council members concurred...
James Phinney Baxter '26, President of Williams College and an authority on the ironclad warship, telegraphed Headquarters yesterday that he is "glad to support" the American Patriots for Raising the Monitor campaign. Baxter also backed the plan to make the vessel a national shrine...