Word: metcalfe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dedication ceremony for Brandeis University's multi-million dollar Goldfarb Library will feature an address by Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. MacLeish and Keyes D. Metcalf, Librarian of Harvard College, Emeritus, will receive honorary degrees during the Nov, 28 ceremony...
Easy-money Democrats, led by Congressman Lee Metcalf of Montana, insisted on an amendment recognizing the Federal Reserve's "primary mission" of administering sound money, but demanded that the Fed "bring about needed future monetary expansion" by buying Government securities of varying maturities instead of, as it has been doing, lowering reserve requirements...
...very bad for the Government's credit if the financial community, here and abroad, got the idea that the U.S. had officially embarked on a soft-money policy. At week's end the Treasury was swinging around to Martin's stand, felt that taking the Metcalf amendment was worse than having no bill...
...Plows. Graves goes one better than mere verbal theorizing-he has pictorially theorized the original tablets in collaboration with Artist James Metcalf, who engraves them in a modern version of sub-Mycenaean style. He arranges his pictures first in the order in which the Bible has them-four sequences of nine, each sequence running from right to left. Then he arranges them in what he postulates as the original order-four sequences of nine, running alternately from right to left, then left to right, the order known from the Greek as boustrophedon, "as the ox plows." For instance, he says...
...joint letter to President Eisenhower last week, six Democratic Congressmen urged him to consider a summit meeting with Russia. The horrors of nuclear warfare, they wrote, make the attempt worthwhile. The six: Minnesota's Eugene J. McCarthy, Montana's Lee Metcalf, Wisconsin's Henry S. Reuss, Pennsylvania's George M. Rhodes, California's James Roosevelt, New Jersey's Frank Thompson...