Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, who had accepted the SDA invitation, commented last night, "I can understand why my Republican colleagues are reluctant to defend the Eisenhower administration; but I still regret the fact that we could not discuss the situation in public...
Added to this very good football team is the bitterness which has been contained at Soldiers Field since last year's Yeager incident. The first opportunity for relief appears today, and the feeling is that Yale may well regret this afternoon not scoring its final 1952 point in a more conventional manner...
...Sincere Regret. In reviving the case, Brownell said that the FBI in December 1945 sent to President Truman, through his aide, Brigadier General Harry Vaughan, a written report saying that former Communist Elizabeth Bentley had said that White was spying for the Russians. The next month Truman promoted White to executive director for the U.S. in the International Monetary Fund...
...next day a Senate committee recommended White's confirmation, and the day after, the Senate, in ignorance of the reports, confirmed him in his job with the Monetary Fund. On April 30, White's last day at the Treasury, President Truman wrote White accepting the resignation "with regret," saying: ". . . You will have increased opportunity for the exercise of your wide knowledge and expertness in a field which is of utmost importance to world peace and security . . . In your new position, you will add distinction to your already distinguished career...
...April 1947, White left his Monetary Fund job in a hurry; Harry Truman accepted the resignation "with, sincere regret and considerable reluctance." Later that year, White was called to testify before a New York grand jury. After the Bentley and Chambers charges against White and others were made public in 1948, Harry Truman tried to shrug off the accusations as "Red herring...