Word: pres
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...verbal parts and certain reports that have come to your recent attention, not only from the intelligence but from the Foreign 0. lead you to believe that the UG, both from domestic and international reasons, dreads nothing so much as an exposure of your activities. As regards the Pres. and the Att. G. directly under the Pres., this may be true. But not every office (and this is a direct warning) of the Att. G. is in line with the Pres. policy. For more than one reason some of them may be interested in initiating investigations of their...
...Cover) Reminiscing last week about the job that took him to the White House. Harry Truman told a piece of personal history in homely barnyard simile: "I tried to argue with those fellows at Chicago [in 1944] that I didn't want to be Vice Pres ident. I told them, 'Look at all the Vice Presidents in history. Where are they? They were about as useful as a cow's fifth teat.'" When he first said it, Harry Truman was roughly right; but today, any generalization about the uselessness of Vice Presi dents falls over...
...scroll was found again in 1953 by Morris Phinney Jr. '56 who reported "Today we got word that a guy named Pusey is our new Pres. here at Harv...
...Germain-des-Pres or Bloomsbury much of this might be accepted as existentialism. In the stubborn Quaker tradition that distrusts abstractions and relies on ad hoc "leadings," Maurer fights shy of any such cerebral pigeonholes. The very word idea, he holds, has the makings of snare and delusion: "The danger is that one will sit down in the world of ideas and go into a sleep so bewitchingly full of busy fantasy as to make anyone certain that he is clear-mindedly awake. The only chance of staying awake is to take with one into the world of ideas...
...Pres. Conant's candlelight ceremony took place in the Faculty Room of University Hall attended by only 150 people, selected to represent principal divisions of the University, the student bodies, the alumni, and the public...