Word: lesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Talked, but did nothing else about the Democratic resolution to oust Illinois' H. H. Velde as chairman of the Un-American Activities Committee. California's Donald L. (for Lester) Jackson touched off the talk with a 70-minute defense of Velde's statement that some churchmen and church organizations might be investigated. After all, said Jackson, there are some clergymen like Washington's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, a critic of the Velde committee, who "has been to the Communist front what Man o' War was to thoroughbred racing .. . Having served God on Sunday...
When two company supervisors at Westinghouse's big Lester (Pa.) jet engine Plant walked into the washroom one morning last fortnight they saw what looked like a clear-cut infraction of a long-standing company rule. Nine men were gathered about a crap game. They were immediately fired. But one of the nine, a gear fitter named Edgar Fulmer protested that he had merely dropped by the washroom, and had never touched the bones. Last week, when the plant supervisor refused to reinstate him, almost 7,000 Westinghouse workers waked out and stopped all production. This week the Plant...
...audience roared their applause until General Assembly President Lester Pearson cracked his gavel. Before the U.N. forum, the U.S. had often made its case with telling legal corrections; seldom had its case been made with such simple, quotable eloquence...
...nominated the Philippines' Carlos Romulo, who won only five votes (U.S., China, Colombia, Greece, Pakistan), two less than needed, and was counted out. Russia named Polish Foreign Minister Stanislaw Skrzeszewski, who got only one vote (Russia). Denmark proposed Canada's Lester Pearson, and many believed that he would not be actively opposed by Russia. Pearson overcame the first obstacle with nine votes (U.S., Britain, France, China, Chile, Denmark, Pakistan, Colombia, Greece), but fell before the second, a Soviet veto (its 56th in the Security Council). The ballots, which are supposed to be secret but aren't, were...
...Lester B. Scherer '54 of Des Moines, Ia., and Adams House, will captain next year's fencing team...