Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over-all issue above and beyond objections to the individual referenda remains the fact that no industrial state has passed such bills. Passage of any of the referenda in Massachusetts would provide incentive to enemies of unions and collective bargaining all over the nation to renew their efforts to destroy by legislation these valuable democratic institutions . . . . Roy Gootenberg '49 Executive Committee, Harvard Liberal Union
Mary Norris '49 especially praised the reception that the students on the tri-nation tour received in Holland and England. Subsequently Alice Gilbert '49, Regional Chairman of the NSA, listed the requirements for students going on the next tour. She stressed language fluency...
Four hundred faculty members at Massachusetts Institute of Technology were hastily convened to hear the news. President Karl T. Compton, 61, was leaving for a new job after 18 years: he would succeed Vannevar Bush as boss of the nation's military research organization, the Research and Development Board. Faculty members, some with tears in their eyes, rose to salute Compton after he made the announcement. Then Compton introduced his 44-year-old successor, Dr. James R. Killian...
Durable Heroes. This week, in an attic study 69 miles from George Washington's Virginia birthplace, a self-confessed "amateur" scholar was digging away at the formidable task of making the nation's first President a credible man. It was a rescue job-as biography must be-of a historical character buried alive. At 62, Douglas Southall Freeman, the nation's No. 1 military historian, is a past master at converting the legendary dead into durable heroes. He devoted 19 years to a four-volume biography of Robert E. Lee, the untouchable Galahad of the Confederacy; historians...
...Radcliffe went the assignment of managing a tri-nation tour of 100 American students to England, France, and Holland, While receiving applications from all over the country, eventually to be passed upon by the NSA executive board, the Radcliffe delegates will establish contact with the Dutch student union and other youth groups overseas...