Word: mr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Council members seemed cautious about what one termed "the dangerous precedent of interference" which such a move would entail. One member even called it "a slap in the face of Mr. Burke." Dustin M. Burke '52 is the director of Student Employment...
Britain, in the spring of 1959, is in a strange mood. Some critics too hurriedly raised the old cry of appeasement, leading the Spectator to retort waspishly: "For the Germans, of all people, to accuse Mr. Macmillan of wanting to do another 'Munich' is a little indelicate." Munich is obviously not the right word. But Britain-public, press and government-is plainly at odds with its allies. It lives on greater hopes and conjures up greater fears...
Signing himself simply Mr. Randolph, an outraged British subject wrote the King at the end of the 17th century to complain that the Bahamas were one of the "chief places where Pyrates Resort & are Harbourd." He requested "that his Majesty be pleased to send a first Rate ffrigot under the Command of a sober person" to end the menace. By 1718 Edward ("Blackbeard") Teach had been shot, and Woodes Rogers, the first Royal Governor, had arrived to establish the crown colony's motto-"Expulsis Piratis...
...difficult to say much more about the appointment of Christian Herter as Secretary of State than that it will be good to have a full-time, full-powered Secretary again. Much as one may sympathize with Mr. Dulles' personal misfortune, his decision to resign was a welcome one. For a foreign ministry--especially one so dependent on a single man as the State Department was under Dulles--cannot go on for long without a responsible leader. The lower echelons of State, whose policy-making role has been so limited in recent years, are unprepared to carry on with just...
...concert opened with the Faithful Shepherd Suite of Handel-Beecham, and this noble music was generally well played. The audience was highly enthusiastic, and, at the close of the concert, joined with the orchestra in giving Mr. Poto a standing ovation...