Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...progress." Guided by President Alan R. Sweezy, managing editor Richard A. Stout, and editorial chairman George Weller, the daily decided it would rather have men "shape their own intellectual destiny and their own breadth of social direction... than to have that destiny and breadth bestowed upon them." This scholarly protest was largely lost amid the vehemence that arose from the 40 Bow St. establishment, however...
...statement ran, "the Lampoon has precipitated morke frank and reasonable comment than months of CRIMSON editorials and whisperings in the parlor have done. Unfortunately, to the rest of the country, Lampy's attack has been branded as a personal ridicule of Mr. Harkness...." Then he went on to protest Lampy's serious intent.... But all the undergraduate criticism made little difference, as the administration began to plan the initial steps of construction that was to lead the House system of today...
...Templer's German appointment had been vetoed by West German Chancellor Adenauer. It was Templer who had dismissed Adenauer as Lord Mayor of Cologne in October 1945, "for not energetically carrying out the orders of the military government." But from Bonn came word that Adenauer had made no protest against the Templer appointment, and certainly bore no grudge. Another possibility: Templer is being held in reserve as Britain's candidate for supreme command of any new Southeast Asia treaty organization...
Faithful Husband. But Bogart did more than protest. He proved and reproved his talent in such pictures as High Sierra, Casablanca and To Have and Have Not. With John Huston (who first directed him in 1941 as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, and with whom he has made Treasure of Sierra Madre, African Queen and, lately, Beat the Devil) he gambled both professional reputation and money on his conviction that motion pictures should break away from the trite and the ordinary. Last year he abandoned the security of a 15-year contract (it had eight more years...
Soss for the Gander. Up jumped Mrs. Soss to protest. No ballots should be cast, said she, until there had been full discussion of her proposals (for cumulative voting and a change in the annual-meeting date). After White explained that the polls would be open all afternoon and anyone whose mind was not made up could vote after the discussion, Mrs. Soss shouted: "You're railroading the vote . . . Maybe we'll have to have Mr. Young as chairman." Excitedly, she marched up to the platform, waggled a finger in the faces of Central executives and charged: "This...