Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case of the six professors had begun when a committee of the Washington state legislature investigated the university. Summoned for questioning, Psychologist Ralph H. Gundlach, Philosophy Professor Herbert J. Phillips and Joseph Butterworth of the English department refused to say whether they were members of the party or not. Three more-E. Harold Eby and Garland O. Ethel of the English department and Anthropologist Melville Jacobs-said that they had been, but were no longer. President Raymond B. Allen and a faculty committee on tenure and academic freedom undertook to investigate further...
...faculty committee, Butterworth and Phillips finally admitted party membership. The committee decided that was not cause for dismissal. The committee also cleared the three who had admitted to onetime membership. But Professor-Gundlach, who still would not say yea or nay, was another matter entirely. The committee recommended he be dismissed for his very evasiveness...
...Trukese. He taught them to read their own language, using a Trukese Bible that early missionaries had translated. He got older natives to give classes in planting and canoe-making, and he himself lectured constantly on sanitation. "We must use the toilets and not the school grounds," he would say. "We must never eat food off the ground . . . We must not store our dead fish in our foot lockers" (which the Trukese had gotten from the Navy...
...bolt and join the old league. Three other A.A.C. teams, having lost close to $500,000 among them last season, were counted ready to quit. Then burly Ben Lindheimer, part owner of the A.A.C.'s Los Angeles Dons, took over. Argued Lindheimer: "People are crazy when they say professional football has reached the saturation point." He insisted that there was plenty of room for two pro leagues...
When American Airlines Chairman C. R. Smith began dickering to sell his overseas subsidiary to Pan American Airways Corp., he did not mention it to American's president, Ralph S. Damon. Smith knew what Damon would say. Damon had been the most outspoken critic of Pan Am President Juan Trippe's version of the "chosen instrument" (one "community" line made up of several U.S. airlines) in U.S. international aviation...