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...tolerates white students who join Negro sit-in pickets, and it tolerates W. C. George, a retired medical professor who recently earned a $3,000 fee from Alabama with a study "proving"' the biological inferiority of Negroes. It is rightly proud of such alumni as President James K. Polk (1818), and wryly proud of such graduates as the late swindler Gaston B. Means ('22), described by Historian Archibald Henderson as "the most able, ingenious and imaginative criminal...
...opening game of the season, a powerful freshman soccer team overwhelmed its opponents from Tufts by the lopsided score of 10 to 1. High scorer in the away contest yesterday was Crimson center forward Hugh Polk, who tallied four times. Six other Crimson men chipped in for one apiece. Harvard was never in danger, sporting a five-goal lead before captain George Meyfarth hit the nets for Tufts...
Drastic Intervention. Monroe's successors not only upheld his doctrine-they extended it beyond the scope he originally gave to it. In 1845 James K. Polk declared, as the "settled policy" of the U.S., that "no future European colony or dominion shall with our consent be planted or established upon any part of the North American continent." Far broader was the Theodore Roosevelt extension of the Monroe Doctrine. Down through the 19th century, it was official U.S. policy that the Monroe Doctrine did not bar outside nations from using armed force against Latin American states to punish wrongs...
...scale ranging from Great to Failure, five were called Great. F.D.R. finished third, after Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, but ahead of Woodrow Wilson and Thomas Jefferson. Harry Truman, in the historians' view, belongs among the Near Greats, in ninth place, not quite up to James Polk but more highly regarded than John Adams or Grover Cleveland. Next to the last among twelve Average Presidents was Dwight D. Eisenhower, who ranks 22nd, and comes in ahead only of the impeached Andrew Johnson. The two complete failures on the list: postwar Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Warren G. Harding...
Died. Malcolm Paul Cantrell. 65, Tennessee banker and heavy-handed politician whose powerful Democratic machine allied itself with Memphis' Boss Crump, ruled the roost in southeastern Tennessee's McMinn and Polk counties for a decade until returning World War II veterans formed the G.I. Non-Partisan League to fight him, used Tommy guns and dynamite on election day, Aug.1,1946, to rescue ballot boxes from the county jail where Cantrell's henchmen had hidden them; of cancer; in Athens, Tenn...