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...summer of 1939, a few short weeks before Hitler's invasion of Poland, Harvard historian William L. Langer was preparing to leave for a year's study in Mexico and Central America when he was contacted by the University Librarian, Keyes DeWitt Metcalf. Metcalf was anxious to purchase for Harvard the personal papers of a Russian exile then living in Mexico, and he asked Langer to represent Harvard in the negotiations...
During that summer, NAACP leader George Metcalf was injured in a bombing. At once the community was aroused. Mississippi's Freedom Democratic Party competed with the NAACP to organize Negroes for protection. The film records the conflicting emotions of fear, anger, and suspicion that followed...
...turned out, Johnson probably spared his prestige a painful blow by retreating to Texas instead of going out politicking. Save for Montana, where Senator Lee Metcalf won the only major race, Democrats suffered serious defeats in every state that the President had planned to visit. Even in Texas, Republican Senator John Tower crushed Democrat Waggoner Carr. According to a gag making the Washington rounds. "Lyndon...
...MONTANA U.S. SENATOR Metcalf (D)* (winner--but scanty results) Babcock...
...Montana, the Miles City Star (circ. 4,000), noting that the New York Times (circ. 874,393) had endorsed Montana Democrat Lee Metcalf, whose U.S. Senate seat is being contested by Governor Tim Babcock, returned the compliment by urging New Yorkers to re-elect Nelson Rockefeller...