Word: samuel
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...will have to do some reforming of U.S. operations as well. The first U.S. military mission in South Viet Nam dates from 1954, when Lieut. General John ("Iron Mike") O'Daniel helped organize the Vietnamese army for pro-Western President Ngo Dinh Diem. Next came Lieut. General Samuel ("Hangin' Sam") Williams, a leathery, irascible veteran who was convinced that when war came it would be a Korean-style invasion from the north with the Communists pouring tank columns and road-bound infantry divisions over the border. Williams was succeeded in 1960 by Lieut. General Lionel McGarr, who many...
...Sell 95%." Churches that have inaugurated tithing often find the gains spectacular. Since 1954, when the Rev. Samuel Johnston began encouraging "percentage giving," the yearly income of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Wellesley, Mass., has increased from $55,000 to $132,000. The largest Protestant congregation (2,000 families) in Washington, D.C., Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church, inaugurated tithing in 1951 and has pushed income since then from...
...Striving to fend off the mounting wrath of Wall Street investors over movie-making losses that have risen to more than $30 million in the past three years, 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. last week elected amiable Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, 66, chairman of the board. Lawyer Rosenman. former adviser to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, will preside at the often explosive executive committee meetings, though President Spyros P. Skouras will still be in operating control. "The Judge will provide a very stabilizing influence," said one executive...
...Joint Center For Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University will award two Doctoral Research Fellowships for the academic year 1962-63. These grants, known as the Samuel Andrew Stouffer Doctoral Research Fellowships, are open to all graduate students at Harvard or M.I.T. writing a dissertation on urban life. The recipients of these fellowships will receive a stipend of $5,500 for the year during which time they will be associates of the Joint Center...
...Samuel L. Lowe, Jr. '37, member of the Reunion Committee, said yesterday that the Committee wants the Band to play...