Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Have a Right to Object." In crossexamination, McCarthy bided his time, feeling his way. Then, with ten minutes to go before the lunchtime recess, he pounced, not on the witness but on Samuel Reber, the general's brother and former Deputy U.S. High Commissioner in Germany. Joe wanted to know if General Reber was aware that his brother "repeatedly had attacked" Cohn and Schine and had them shadowed while they were on their sleuthing expedition through Europe last year. General Reber said he had not known it and, in any event, it would not have affected his testimony...
Several hours after their decision, Dr. Samuel B. Kirkwood, M.D. '31, State Health Commissioner, announced that on the basis of the committee's recommendation up to 40,000 school children in the state will be vaccinated with the Salk serum before June...
Greens were soggy and slow. Defending Champion Ben Hogan, the Mechanical Man from Texas, said he needed a Seeing Eye dog to find the pins. But Hogan was only talking trouble. His game under control, he was well up in second place. Samuel Jackson Snead, 1952's winner, was a nervous three strokes back...
...private schools are something of a national necessity, said U.S. Education Commissioner Samuel M. Brownell last week: "It is sometimes said that [the private schools] are undemocratic and unAmerican. The fact is, however, that . . . by their historic contributions to our tradition of freedom of belief and freedom to teach . . . they exemplify a democratic freedom . . . Cultivation of a habitual awareness of God and . . . teaching the history and bases of religion are inalienable rights which the non-public schools may exercise in their attempts to make God-centered rather than self-centered youth." Indeed, concluded Brownell, the greatness of American education...
Died. Pierre Samuel du Pont, 84, longtime (1915-40) head of the world's largest chemicals empire, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (assets: $668,587,711); in Wilmington, Del. Du Pont developed the first practical smokeless powder (1893), during World War I made a fortune supplying munitions to the Allies. After investing $49 million in General Motors, he borrowed $35 million more (1920) to save the company from bankruptcy, soon put G.M. back on its feet. Assailed as a "merchant of death" during the early '30s, Pierre began to plow wartime profits into peacetime research, developed...