Word: kindness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Great Expectations. Mississippi's Senator John Stennis, a Thurmond supporter (who says that he finally voted for Harry Truman), was another kind of legislator. The President could count on him for a fair share of his program, excepting, of course, civil rights. When Stennis went down to the White House to push a friend for a U.S. attorneyship, Harry Truman didn't even ask him, Stennis reported, how he intended to vote on Taft-Hartley. With grim significance, Stennis added: "I hope and expect him to appoint this gentleman...
...Marcantonio popped up with a bald amendment which, after throwing out the Taft-Hartley Act, would reinstate the 1935 Wagner Act as it stood. This was exactly what C.I.O. leaders had originally demanded. Marcantonio shrilled that he wanted to make the issue clear-cut. But it was just the kind of clearcutness that cautious Administration leaders wanted to avoid...
...Carry out this kind of research, and you can laugh at the rest of the medical profession, because they don't do any of this, either...
Hence a firm which has science experts on its staff is needed to direct money, for hesitant investors, into enterprises which scientists feel have good chances of being fruitful. That's just the kind of firm Doriot's baby, American Research and Development...
...Wilson, a transfer from Southern California, six three and 210 pounds. Wilson slipped into Harvard unnoticed by the coaches because he wanted to get a Ph.D. in German. He was discovered by a member of the German Department and referred to Valpey. This is the only case of its kind in Harvard history, we suspect...