Word: moe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only One Outrage. As for the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, said its Secretary Henry Allen Moe, "the most outrageous mistake of all" was a 1935 grant to Scenarist Alvah Bessie, who later became one of the Hollywood Ten jailed for contempt of Congress. But except for Bessie and two or three others, said Moe, the foundation had done well: like its sister organizations, it had never knowingly subsidized a subversive, and it never would...
Then why do foundations make the mistakes they do? Said Secretary Moe: "Senator Guggenheim,* as you know, was a miner, a mining man, and he understood what a grubstake was . . . He used to say: 'When you are grubstaking, you take chances. You act on the best evidence you've got, but still you have got to take chances.' We who operate really on the frontiers of knowledge and understanding have to recognize that we are not the Almighty. And not being the Almighty, we can't find out everything ... If [applicants for a grant] are members...
...Madison to study architecture at the National Higher School of Fine Arts, Paris; Ralph E. Matlaw to study comp. lit. at the Univ. of Paris; John W. McCoubrey to study art history at the Univ. of Paris; Wallace McDonald to study history at the Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland; Lawrence Moe to study musicology at the G. B. Martini Conservatory at Bologna, Italy; William A. Morrison to study sociology at the Univ. of Bombay; Don Page to study architecture at the Polytechnic Institute, Milan; Theodore W. Patterson to study city planning at the Univ. of London...
...Robert "Moe" Baldwin led the varsity lacrosse team in scoring over the 1952 season, figures released yesterday by the Athletic Association disclosed...
...foreign inventors were busily at work on the first automobiles. The step from Honry Ford's car to the paddy wagon was a short one, and riot-quellers were soon provided with a new weapon. The Black Maria, in turn, hastened the discovery of the Eezy Meeny Miny Moe Ringleader Detection Technique...