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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...devious behavior is open to question. It is possible that Ike's inaction on the question was based on his principle of "quiet leadership," although on other issues he has exerted himself conspicuously. One factor in this particular disintegration of White House leadership was the President's somewhat disabling post-operation convalescene at the time. Whatever the cause, by allowing Republican legislators to play political shuttlecock with a vital problem, Ike has let the seed of his prestige fall on stony ground...
...effectively in the redefinition of democracy after the Civil War. One reason why slaveholders had opposed emancipation was the fact that they had not formulated a plan for the place of freedmen in American society. During Reconstruction, Negro members of state conventions and legislatures supported measures to abolish the post-Civil War Black Codes by which the all-white legislatures had attempted to keep the freedmen as nearly as possible in their former servile status...
This is the story of an American missionary nurse's love affair with Africa. Slim, thirtyish Rachel Cade can take sex or leave it alone, but she is not really interested in it. She quits her first post because a married doctor keeps breathing amorously on her neck. At her next post, Dibela, in the Belgian Congo, the resident doctor dies the night she arrives, leaving her the only white within miles. In short order she climbs the sacred Mountains of the Moon and invites a couple of thahus (curses) from the local medicine men. So there...
Brennan is presently an Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, a post he has held since 1952. Two years previous to that, he served as a justice in the New Jersey Supreme Court. During World War II, he worked in the procurement office of the War Department
...varsity will run the 3.7 mile riverside course which begins in front of Newell Boat House from scratch, while the Yardlings will have three to five minute handicaps. Others will receive handicaps at post time at the discretion of the handicap committee, cross country coach Bill McCurdy...