Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other speakers at the Symposium, which was moderated by Charles D. Post, were Henry C. Cassidy, news commentator for NBC; C. Douglas Dillion, Ambassador to France; Dwight E. Harken, noted heart surgeon and Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery; and James Hopkins Smith, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Navy...
...appointment of Political Diplomat Seaton (see box) to the politically hot Interior post was as shrewd as it was surprising. Ever since 1953, some Democratic politicians have been shouting against the "giveaway" policies of the Eisenhower Administration's Department of the Interior, chiefly because the department has emphasized private and local, rather than federal development of natural resources. After Secretary Douglas McKay resigned in mid-April to run against Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse, it was clear that some U.S. Senate Democrats, e.g., Oregon's Richard Neuberger, would fight confirmation of McKay's Under Secretary...
...China in 1919, Starr's group built its American-Asiatic Underwriters into Asia's biggest insurance operation, with more than half of China's total business; it accumulated large real-estate holdings, opened Studebaker and Buick-Vauxhall agencies, published Shanghai's English-language Evening Post & Mercury. When Charles S. Miner took over in 1948, the company was doing a highly successful business and hoped it could continue under the. Communists. Starr's Evening Post even fell for the line that the Reds were really "agrarian democrats" without binding ties to Moscow, went...
...censorship throttled the Evening Post so effectively that it was soon forced to shut down, sell its equipment at junk prices. The auto agencies next went under. But despite heavy taxes, Starr's insurance business prospered, and the land company, Metropolitan Land Co., was allowed to manage its properties...
...President this spring took his most significant action in the field of alumni relations. In order to "give increased impetus to Harvard's alumni program and provide a closer connection between the educational program in Cambridge and its graduates," Pusey appointed Daniel S. Cheever '39 to the new post of Director of Alumni Affairs...