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Word: pledgees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yet despite the need for funds, which the error generated, the Council followed up its Registration Day pledges by mailing the actual pledge cards to the student contributors, thus forfeiting their only record of who had pledged, and what.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "... and the Democrats in 1924" | 1/9/1957 | See Source »

The country with the Western Hemisphere's worst addiction to inflation last week took the pledge and swore off abruptly. Bolivia launched a determined attempt to force its currency, lately worth around 10,000 bolivianos to the dollar, back up toward its 1951 value of 200. The tools to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Toward a Free Economy | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

Voting on the form of the Combined Charities pledge cards, the Council ratified the proposal submitted by co-chairmen Michael N. Butler '57 and Gregory B. Stone '58, which put PBH, the Salzburg Seminar, American Field Service, and World University Service on the suggested list.

Author: By Peter V. Shackter, | Title: Council Votes Building For Theatre, Activities | 12/18/1956 | See Source »

Gomulka, who announced that "Communism is flexible enough for everything except permitting man to exploit man,'' was ready to try all sorts of unorthodox ways to hold Poland for Communism. He named Jerzy Sztachelski, former Minister of Health, to the new Office of Church Affairs. In return for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Concordat of Coexistence | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

On December 8, 1941, James B. Conant, then President of the University, spoke before a large audience in Sanders Theatre. "The United States is now at war . . . . We are here tonight to testify that each one of us stands ready to do his part in insuring that a speedy and...

Author: By Lewis M. Steel, | Title: College Life During World War II Based on Country's Military Needs | 12/7/1956 | See Source »

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