Word: lee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clurman, Donald S. Connery, George Daniels, Henry Bradford Darrach, Jr., Nigel Dennis, Thomas Dozier, Osborn Elliott, William Forbis, Rebecca Franklin, Bernard Friwell, Manon Gaulin, Ezra Goodman, Eldon Griffiths, Alan Hall, Sam Halper, Carter Harman, Barker T. Hartshorn, Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., Theodore E. Kalem, Douglas S. Kennedy, Essie Lee,' Byron D. Mack, Peter Mathews, Robert McLaughlin Martin O'Neill, Richard Oulahan, Jr., Robert Parker, George B. Post, Richard Seamon, Mark Vishniak...
...world leadership, exhibit in their personal and public characters the dynamism of high tension between contrasts. This is not a quiet or consistent people. Its restless side is mirrored in Thomas Alva Edison and Upton Sinclair and the music of George Gershwin. This same people reveres Robert E. Lee, a Christian conservative rebel, and produces figures like Henry Ford, a radical businessman, and William Green, an archconservative labor leader. Of the 300 million Americans, none has shown in his own person the contrast, the tension of the American spirit more than George Washington, whom the orators of the Old-Fashioned...
...Department of Health. Education and Welfare, he has a big title with comparatively little authority. He sponsors worthy projects and collects worthy statistics, but his main function is less to administer than to advise. Last week President Eisenhower nominated a man who should fill the post well: Lee M. Thurston of Michigan...
...Lee Thurston has indicated that he will stick by his philosophy. The big task for the Office of Education, he says, is to "make far greater use, in a cooperative relationship, of the several state departments of education." As a sort of beneficent uncle and general counsel to U.S. education ($14,800 a year), Thurston will go right on doing what came naturally in Michigan: teaching Americans how they can get better schools themselves...
...such companies as Sperry Gyroscope, Eastern Airlines, Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc.), had been ordered by the Government to concentrate either on aircraft production or airlines. It decided to keep its planemaking business, and it needed a production man. From Douglas, President Kindelberger took two men with him: crack Designer "Lee" Atwood, now North American's president; and J. S. ("Stan") Smithson, a topnotch designer who is now North American's manufacturing vice president...