Word: owen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...David E. Owen, professor of History, suggested that Churchill's birthday "ought to be regarded as a day of special observance throughout the free world. When measured alongside him," said Owen, "other latter day politicians seem tiny. No other leader of modern times has so captured the imagination of his fellow countrymen or could so draw their latent energies...
Died. Edward Clark Carter, 76, secretary-general of the Institute of Pacific Relations during the turbulent '30s and '40s when it numbered among its staff such controversial left-wingers as Millionaire Frederick Vanderbilt Field and Professor Owen Lattimore; in Manhattan. An early proponent of better U.S. understanding of Asia (and the wartime head of Russian War Relief), Carter denied during a 1951 Senate investigation that he was or had ever been a Communist, testified that the I.P.R. had rejected suggestions by Lattimore in the late '30s that it support Communism in China and Russia...
...OWEN J. STUBBS Guelph...
...back the Kentucky seat he had held for 21 years (1927-48), and Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney, 70, was elected to represent Wyoming, as he had for 18 years until the 1952 Eisenhower landslide forced him to spend two years as a Washington lawyer (one client: Owen Lattimore...
What would St. Francis have said to the beggar who was rolled by the Assisian equivalent of a beautiful call girl and wanted to get to the Assisian equivalent of Wall Street? Mutatis mutandis, what would Robert Owen have said? Or Lenin? Or Kingsley Martin? Or Franklin Roosevelt? Or Emily Post? Or Freud? As for my friends and me, words failed us. Neither our education nor our experience nor our principles had prepared us for this encounter. Ours is, indeed, a rich and wonderful country-glamorous beyond belief. A bum can no longer suffer mere misfortune; he must be "rolled...