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When J. Robert Oppenheimer '25 speaks in Cambridge this April, the students who attend his lectures will not be expecting to hear a justification of his actions as a public servant. The William James lectures will not be used as a means to clear the name of a man who made undeniable errors of judgement. Their purpose, and the purpose of the man who will deliver them, will be to benefit the students of Harvard by allowing them to hear the thoughts of one of the greatest minds of the century...
...drivers, checking and rechecking licenses and registrations, whipping out tape measures to see if the law providing a 15-in. space for each passenger was being observed, citing every letter of the law to delay the car-lift. In the cities themselves, police searched Negro hotels and the servant quarters of white homes to smoke out workers staying overnight without police passes. Railroads refused to let the workers ride, on the grounds that tickets for all available seats had already been sold, and hundreds of walking Negroes were arrested on the roads and herded into jails on cooked-up charges...
Conflict of Interest. Like any public servant, the union official may invest his personal funds as he pleases-as long as he is "scrupulously careful to avoid any actual or potential conflict of interest," e.g., by owning a "substantial business interest in any business with which his union bargains collectively," by accepting "kickbacks...
...musicians went home quietly, one violinist said: "He has gone on golden wings." In Milan's Casa di Riposo, which was founded by Verdi and to which Toscanini contributed, aged singers and musicians started a fast. And at Toscanini's Milan home, a veteran servant placed the traditional "book of condolences" in the entrance; for days, people passed by to inscribe their names. Millions all over the world added their names from a distance, including the President of the U.S., who said: "The music he created and the hatred of tyranny that was his are part...
...Those opposed to him," boasted Georgia's Richard Russell, who frequently opposed, "do not have to fear that they will be sandbagged in the back of the head in any legislative dark alley." "Well done, thou good and faithful servant, but go ahead and do some more," sang Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley. "No greater patriot ever served his country," defiantly barked Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey. Tennessee's Albert Gore added he had heard it proclaimed that "when Bill Knowland takes a stand, he stands as if his feet were in concrete." New Hampshire's Styles...