Word: milton
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Such conferences have become annual affairs at Kansas State; and from President James A. McCain on down, the entire faculty eagerly awaits their outcome. They began six years ago, when a group of veterans confronted McCain's predecessor, Milton Eisenhower, with a list of "gripes." Ike's educator brother (now president of Penn State) was impressed, called in some of the faculty to hear the complaints. Since then, students have elected representatives and the conference has become a full-fledged policy-making body...
...DIARY OF GEORGE TEMPLETON STRONG (4 vols.; 2,143 pp.)-Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas-Macmillan...
John Foster Dulles, foreign policy; Illinois Representative Leslie Arends, Kansas Representative Clifford Hope and Milton Eisenhower, farm policy; Idaho Governor Leonard Jordan, development of resources; a delegation of Illinois Republicans headed by former Senator C. Wayland Brooks, to whom Ike demonstrated, fists clenched over the luncheon table, how hard he intends to fight in November...
...roar of 5,000 diehard fans. He had racked up a total of 7,887 points, 62 points better than his own world record. But the cheering was not all for the pride of Tulare: his two team mates, New Jersey's 1 8-year-old Milton Campbell and North Carolina's Floyd Simmons had nailed down second and third places for a U.S. sweep of the Olym pics' most demanding test...
...some ideas about the sort of fellow he wanted for a running mate: a young, "forward-looking" man, and someone who would help him get along with Congress. Among others, he considered Senators Knowland and Nixon, Governors Warren, Sherman Adams (New Hampshire), Val Peterson (Nebraska), Dan Thornton (Colorado). Brother Milton Eisenhower plugged for Taft; although Eisenhower advisers thought that Taft 1) would be bad for the ticket, 2) would not accept anyway. Eisenhower left the final decision to a meeting of his advisers, presided over by Herbert Brownell, at the Hilton, on the afternoon of his nomination. The meeting quickly...