Word: kurt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arguing the affirmative position in the question: "Resolved, That the Constitution be amended to permit the passage of treaties by a simple majority in both houses," were Ronald G. Newburgh '46 and Arthur D. Sporn '47. Their opponents were Leonard Zariman and Donald Hackel, Judges for debate included Kurt W. Lessen and William F. Weeks of Lowell House...
Judges included Charles W. Duhig '29 assistant dean of Harvard College, Elliott Perkins '23, lecturer in History and Master of Lowell House, and Kurt Lessen, resident tutor in Lowell House...
...American officer, explaining the difference between the U.S. Army's policy toward civilians in Belgium and Germany, had said: "In Belgium we ask them; in Germany we tell them." Now Vienna-born Captain Kurt Walitschek, of the U.S. Army, presiding at the summary military court trial of the four women, was prepared to demonstrate that policy...
...spoke through the voice of fox-faced Lieut. General Kurt Dittmar, ace of the German military commentators. What Dittmar had to say was that Germany was defeated, but that it must fight on, "breaking the will of the enemy to destroy...
Other expatriate Manhattan intellectuals along wooded South Mountain Road felt equally bitter, if not so poetic. Among them: Artist Henry Varnum Poor, Cartoonist Milton Caniff (Terry & the Pirates), Composer Kurt Weill (Lady in the Dark). So did Helen Hayes, who lives down the river a way. So did several hundred less glamorous citizens-Italian and Polish truck gardeners behind the Hudson Highlands, and rock-ribbed Republicans who peacefully dairy-farm and grow cauliflower in the blue Catskill hills. Each did something about it in his own way: Playwright Anderson used his $180 from the New Yorker as a campaign contribution...