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...Your booklet in a fine statement."--Henry Noble MacCracken, former president of Vassar College...
...Your booklet is a fine statement."--Henry Noble MacCracken, former president of Vassar College...
Contempt of Congress is a criminal offense, and is usually punished as such. In 1929 Oilman Harry F. Sinclair was sent to jail for three months* for refusing to answer a Congressional Committee's questions on his company's dealings. In 1935 William P. MacCracken Jr., secretary of the American Bar Association and a former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, was put behind bars for the destruction of subpoenaed papers...
...most prestigious of colleges is the American University of Beirut, largest U.S. educational center abroad. A.U.B.'s grads include a recent Syrian Prime Minister (now U.N. delegate), the Lebanese Minister to the U.S. Among former Beirut teachers: Vassar's President Emeritus Henry Noble MacCracken...
Looking for a successor to retiring President Henry Nobel MacCracken, Vassar College set out to get "the best possible person, man or woman." Last week Vassar found what it was looking for, picked the first woman president in its 85 years. The choice was Cornell's Home Economics Dean Sarah Gibson Blanding...