Word: publically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hoare, Viscount Templewood, 79, longtime British diplomat, who excelled in tennis, often bumbled in diplomacy; of a heart attack; in London. As Foreign Secretary in 1935, he engineered with wily French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval the notorious pact that surrendered a fifth of besieged Ethiopia to Mussolini. Forced by public outrage to resign, he bounced back to office under Neville Chamberlain, backed Chamberlain's Munich appeasement because he felt it would intimidate Russia. "He passes," someone said, "from experience to experience, like Boccaccio's virgin, without discernible effect upon his condition...
...seemed to rededicate himself, in a sense, to the Sherman tradition. He attended Army of the Tennessee reunions, took such tough stands on national issues -"Socialism asks us to vote for the dishonor of our mothers"; "The man who shoots an anarchist on sight is a public benefactor"-that his Jesuit superiors pulled him off speaking tours. In 1898 he volunteered for duty as an Army chaplain, served in Puerto Rico...
Over half of the donations have been designated for specific purposes within the University. Several professorships, scholarships, and public rooms will be named for Program contributions...
WASHINGTON, May 17--Rep. Melvin Price (D-Ill.) said today he plans to try again to hold public hearings this year on whether the Pentagon is guilty of footdragging and indecision in developing a nuclear-powered plane...
Price had hoped the public airing would give the nuclear-powered plane project a push he long has contended it needs...