Word: j
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SHELDON J. KARLAN...
...J. P. MORRIS...
...letter came from Houston Oilman H. J. (Jack) Porter, 61, hard-riding Republican national committeeman, who wrote 25 influential Texas Republicans on official party stationery, asking them to support a $100-a-plate fund-raising speech from House Republican Leader Joe Martin in Houston. In the letter was a pointed paragraph that punctured the great gas balloon. Excerpts: "Joe Martin . . . has always been a friend of Texas, especially of the oil-and gas-producing industries. He mustered two-thirds of the Republican votes in the House each time the bill was passed ... It will be up to Joe Martin...
...last week by publicly advocating U.S. recognition of Communist China ("After all," he told a women's Democratic club in Washington, "Communist China is China itself"). With that scarcely opportune statement, Dilworth instantly found himself besieged by I) Philadelphia's strong Democratic machine-led by Congressman William J. Green Jr. and City Democratic Leader James Clark-which had been fighting to keep the mayor from announcing for the governor's race, and 2) Pittsburgh's mayor and Democratic Kingmaker David Lawrence, a longtime Dilworth supporter but strictly a hands-off-Red-China hand. At week...
...when the physics department wanted to invite J. Robert Oppenheimer to speak, Schmitz barred him as too controversial (TIME, Feb. 28, 1955). That action, said eight outside scientists who had planned to attend a conference at Washington, "clearly placed the University of Washington outside the community of scholars." The next year, citizens were shocked to learn that the regents had approved the use of the stadium for a professional football game, secretly designed to raise money to subsidize athletes. "It is fantastic," stormed one professor, "what a cheap price is put on 'education' at this school." Added another...