Word: lamonts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CORLISS LAMONT...
Wrote Col. Lindbergh to his friend, Banker Thomas W. Lamont, who made the principal speech at a banquet in Manhattan on the anniversary: "I am embarrassed to think of you being asked to devote your time and energy to preparing a speech for the anniversary of my flight to Paris. I believe that the past should not be turned into an obligation for the future; and ceremonies for celebrating past events almost invariably become an obligation for those taking part in them...
...five liberals who were named on the petition are Robert M. Lovett '12, professor at the University of Chicago and identified with labor movements there; Roger N. Baldwin '05, president of the American Civil Liberties Union; Lloyd K. Garrison '19, dean of the Wisconsin University Law School; Corliss Lamont '24, well known liberal of New York; and Julian W. Mack '87, New York judge. The name of the latter is, however, being placed on the ballot because of a petition received previously which had the necessary 200 signatures all of which were eligible...
...Lamont Specifications...
...letter to President Conant, accompanying the gift, Lamont said he hoped the money would be used to establish a chair for a "scholar preeminent in the field of political economy." This was the only limitation placed upon the use of the fund...