Word: lectureships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bouncing into view before some 2,000 University of California at Los Angeles students, Elder Statesman Harry S. Truman, 74, sprang a surprise on his listeners: U.C.L.A. has offered him a short-term regents' lectureship and "When I get here, you may be sorry!" On another whistle stop in Los Angeles, Campaigner Truman, addressing some rapt businessmen, looked ahead to 1960, backhandedly nominated Vice President Richard Nixon as his own preferred G.O.P. White House aspirant: "I hope [the Republicans] don't bury him until after the next election. He'll be the easiest to lick...
However, another member of the Committee, which is chaired by Gardella, disclosed that "the Committee was of the opinion that Reuther was a proper candidate for the Gay Lectureship." He added that the group then submitted his name to Berry, who decided that although the labor leader would be interesting for the students, he would not be suitable for the post of Gay Lecturer...
...answer to an invitation from the Harvard-Radcliffe United Nations Council to deliver the first annual Dag Hammarskjold lectureship, Truman said, "it would be a pleasure to deliver a lecture at Harvard." The United Nations Council had previously asked Truman to speak last year...
...Constitution," which is also the topic for a series of lectures Truman has agreed to give at Columbia University. However the spokesman expressed the opinion that Truman might be persuaded to give a lecture on a topic of "a more international nature, one more in line with this particular lectureship...
While at the University, Spini will occupy the Lauro de Vosis Lectureship in the History of Italian Civilization. In addition to his interest in Italian history, he also specializes in the history of the United States during the Nineteenth Century...