Word: langer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Professor Gibb is one of the very greatest living Arabists," William L. Langer '15, director of the Center, said last night. "Even a non-Harvard man would agree that his selection puts Harvard in the front rank of institutions in this field...
William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History and head of the Russian Research Center as well as the Center of Middle Eastern Studies, spoke for the three when he said: "I can see little significance in his death. He was not that high in the Soviet hierarchy to effect a possible change in Soviet-United States relations...
Both Merle Fainsod, professor of Government, and Adam Ulam, assistant professor of Government--authorities on Soviet affairs--agreed with Langer's evaluations. They pointed out that Vishinsky was never popular with the United States. Both felt he would probably be replaced by some high ranking diplomat...
...scheduled to be chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, announced last week that he would seek to have that committee abolished. The Senate Judiciary Committee, once the most influential committee of Congress, goes from the frying pan to the fire -from North Dakota's drafty William Langer to West Virginia's drafty Harley Kilgore. Few revisions in labor-management law are likely to come out of the 84th, since North Carolina's Graham Barden, a staunch Taft-Hartley man, will be chairman of the House Labor Committee. And there is little chance of anyone pushing...
...good morals" to the majority of Senate members may be highly inflammatory to the public. A censure motion against William Langer of North Dakota for obstructing Senate business and a move to refuse seating to the vituperative Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi were both doomed to failure. The Republicans who insisted that Bilbo not be seated violated an old Senate tradition: that Senators whose credentials are in question be allowed to take their seats, pending a report of the Committee on Privileges and Elections. In Bilbo's case the unprecedented tactics were necessary because Southern Democrats who opposed Bilbo...