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...answering a list of prepared questions, designed to cover as many aspects of the topics as possible. The men were: William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Philosophy; Bart J. Bok, associate professor of Astronomy; Clive Knowles, state organizer of "Labor's Non-Partisan League of Massachusetts; R. Minton Sedgwick '21, Boston Chairman of the William Allen White Committee; and Donald C. McKay, assistant professor of History...
...tall (6 ft. 2 in.) burly (220 Ib.) recruit with a mouth-filling name reports this week to the Air Corps station at Maxwell Field, Ala. The recruit: 20-year-old Egon Ludwig Sedgwick Hanfstaengl, U. S.-born son of Harvardman "Putzi" Hanfstaengl, onetime piano-playing pal of Adolf Hitler. Father "Putzi," who jumped from the German frying pan just in time, landed in a Canadian concentration camp. His son, a U. S. citizen, left his Harvard class for a three-year hitch in the Air Corps...
...pursuing these aims the Harvard group is not operating in a vacuum, but has been from the outset an informal adjunct of William Allen White's Committee to Defend America by Aiding England. Speaking at Harvard last week, Minturn Sedgwick, Vice-Chairman of the White outfit, said in describing a hypothetical transfer of American bombers to great Britain, "The President is all for the plan, but only if public opinion gets behind it. That's where the William Allen white committee swings into action, and pretty soon, Bang! and the deal is done." This was not sheer boasting...
Later in his speech Sedgwick said that "unless a miracle happens, it looks as if Uncle Sam will be in the war" by next summer. If Sedgwick has his way, this is how it will happen: When White and his satellites, among them President Conant, decide that American resistance has been sufficiently weakened, the knockout blow will be delivered, and the United States will be blasted into war by a barrage of skillful propaganda shaming Hearst's puny jingoism...
...fact the first meeting tomorrow night in Emerson D at 8 o'clock will be addressed by R. Minturn Sedgwick, Boston director of the Committee to Defend America. External cooperation is also being given by the faculty Defense Group, whose aims, while less clear cut, are nevertheless along the exact lines of the Defense League...