Word: lettered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much obliged to you for publishing my letter to Col. Wm. J. Bingham, and I have nothing to add or detract from it except to emphasize that there were 34 "H" men available from the 1948 team that defeated Yale and that our material this year was far better than the average. Our 1949 team outweighed every team it played against, including Army...
...impelled to write to you as three lines of my letter were garbled and unreadable as published in the CRIMSON--to wit: "but produced the most ineptly coached team--offensively, defensively, and in forward passing in the history of Harvard football...
...Lilienthal ever since his days with the Tennessee Valley Authority: "The country is better off.", But Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas declared that David Lilienthal was a "great public servant" who deserved to know that "the great mass of Americans recognize the splendid work he has done." In a letter of unusual warmth and appreciation to "Dear Dave," President Harry Truman agreed. "Reluctantly and with the utmost regret," he accepted the resignation, but with the understanding that Lilienthal would still be on call at any time...
...These two men, while fine artists, have been openly denounced in the press as being pro-Communist ... I deeply resent having any money from a community project in this town going into the hands of those unsympathetic to our democracy." Columnist Cassini phoned her and she read him the letter. He printed it. When the editor of the Greenwich Time saw Cassini's column, he also printed the letter. At the invitation of the Greenwich Kiwanis Club, Hester McCullough marched into a luncheon meeting and once again aired her views...
...executive committee of the National Interfraternity Conference had omitted the touchy question from the agenda; it came up on the conference floor in Washington last week just the same. Agreed a majority of the representatives of U.S. Greek-letter societies, in a resolution swathed in verbal cotton wool: fraternities that have "selective membership provisions" (i.e., whose bylaws bar anybody on grounds of race or religion) ought to "eliminate such selectivity provisions." The vote: 36 for, 3 against, 19 abstaining...