Word: oswald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that 'life is just one damned thing after another' "), Toynbee organized history in a pattern. He treated not of nations or races or even "forces," but of civilizations which he saw living and dying in regular cycles. This concept was popularized by Germany's brilliant Historian Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), but where Spengler saw the rise and fall of civilizations inexorably fated, Toynbee believed them subject to man's free will and God's grace...
...backstop the first team, whose toughest job will be to block the expected drive for Chinese Communist membership in the U.N., the President also named five alternates, including re-appointments for James J. Wadsworth, brother-in-law of Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, and Mrs. Oswald Lord, 1952 co-chairman of the Citizens for Eisenhower. The three new alternates: Wright Francis Morrow, 61, wealthy Houston lawyer who backed the Texas Democrats for Eisenhower; Ade M. Johnson, 58, director of labor and industry in the state of Washington; Roger Williams Straus, 62, a New York industrialist (American Smelting & Refining...
...summarily turned down. The consulate informed him that he could only get a "traveler's permit" that would allow him to return to Brit ain, but no place else. It was the first such turndown for a Communist, although people such as Britain's Fascist Oswald Mosley have also been turned down. Winnington, a Communist Party member since 1934, thus faces the choice of staying behind the Iron Curtain or going back to Britain and staying there. Though the London Worker screamed in Page One headlines that the refusal to give Winnington a passport is "a flagrant violation...
...initiation fee of $500, dues of $300 a year and minimum American plan rate of $50 a day are only the low hurdles. The applicant must also pass the scrutiny of the board of governors: Wenner-Gren, the Hon. Mrs. Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie, Eunice, Lady Oakes, Sir Oswald Bancroft and seven other Mayfair and Florida social arbiters. If he gets by without a blackball, and would like to settle on the island, the new member may then sign up for a homesite-at $10,000 an acre...
During the two brief speeches of the meeting, Oswald L. Johnston, Jr. '55, speaking for the affirmative, asserted that the University's tradition of 300 years was distinguished because of its exclusion of women. Fisher, the negative speaker, claimed that excluding girls from the College would leave Harvard men either monks or monkeys...