Word: lohan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...head the school of architecture at the Armour Institute (since renamed the Illinois Institute of Technology) led Mies to Chicago and the full flowering of his genius. "He always said he would have created the same things if he had stayed in Germany," says Mies' grandson, Architect Dirk Lohan, "but personally I believe that the special climate and pace of Chicago helped him to create what...
...committee of inquiry. He was soon sorry. Two weeks ago, the committee filed its report. Wilson, it said, was wrong. Another man might have apologized and let the matter drop. The Prime Minister did neither. Having failed to indict the Express, he simply switched his attack to Sammy Lohan. He issued a White Paper accusing the longtime civil servant of not having tried hard enough to stop publication by the Express, and of failing to warn his superiors in time that Pincher's article was about to be published...
Reaction to the White Paper was swift and vehement. Lohan resigned and the press was once more unanimous in its censure of Wilson. "I cannot recall ever seeing such a wholehearted condemnation of a Prime Minister's action," said second-ranking Tory Reginald Maudling. "Mr. Wilson certainly asked for it. It is one of his more unlovable char acteristics that he is never prepared to admit he is wrong...
...confidence. Since he was under attack, he said, rather than follow the usual Prime Minister's procedure of opening the debate, he would end it. By that neat bit of parliamentary footwork, he assured himself the last word. When he took the floor, he repeated his accusations. Lohan and Pincher had been much too friendly, he said. Then he recalled that Lohan had been the subject of a security check back in 1964. There was no time left for questions, and Wilson won a strictly party-line vote of confidence...
...angriest editorials it has printed in years, the Times of London asked: "If Colonel Lohan was cleared, why refer to the inquiry? If it found against him, then how did he remain in his post until 1967?" Against tactics like Wilson's, said the Times, "so pitiless, so adroit, so lacking in scruple, so strongly enhanced by the authority of a Prime Minister's office, no man's character is safe...