Word: lamberts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used to center some 25 to 26 centimeters (9.8 to 10.2 inches) from the shoulder-up to 19 or 20 centimeters (7.4 to 8.2)." Although U.S. designers dutifully listened, some claimed that his new look was old stuff to them. Said the New York Dress Institute's Eleanor Lambert: "After all, fashion has been moving away from the pointed bosom and the nipped-in waist for some time . . . Dior crystallized the thinking and gave the new look added publicity...
Without delay the Board of Regents asked Mitchell's superior, W. V. Lambert, dean of the College of Agriculture, to investigate and report to them as soon as possible. Lambert subsequently opened his remarks to the regents with a powerful statement of principles (see box) which they liked so well that they adopted it and incorporated it in the University's records as a declaration of university policy...
During the meeting Lambert told the regents, "If teachers and research men in our public institutions are to make contributions to social problems, they must have the solid backing of the governing bodies of these institutions. I urge you as strongly as I can to give such backing in this case...
...Rudy Lambert: "In 1943 Dr. Oppenheimer indicated to Colonel Lansdale [another military intelligence officer] that he did not know Rudy Lambert, a Communist Party functionary. In fact. Dr. Oppenheimer asked Colonel Lansdale what Lambert looked like. Now, however, Dr. Oppenheimer under oath has admitted that he knew and had seen Lambert at least half a dozen times prior to 1943; he supplied a detailed description of Lambert . . . and [said] that he knew at the time that Lambert was an official in the Communist Party...
During the meeting Lambert told the regents. "If teachers and research men in our public institutions are to make contributions to social problems, they must have the solid backing of the governing bodies of these institutions. I urge you as strongly as I can to give such backing in this case...