Word: signer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Members of the AEC have taken the "natural position," claimed another signer, M. Stanley Livingston, Director of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator. He remarked that they are "narrowly interested in doing their job well...
Thompson had assumed that football was a subject fit for kidding at Brown, which was an eager signer of the Ivy League de-emphasis pact of 1954, has since played the game so honorably that its teams have won 24 games, lost 20. But to his astonishment, Thompson soon learned that football is no laughing matter-even at Brown. His phone rang night and day with anonymous threatening calls from sullen students. Curious to see how Brown would react to more balloon pricking, Thompson stuck tongue farther in cheek, called for the abolition of the Navy...
David O. Riesman '31, Ford Professor, another signer of the protest, emphasized the need to "create a field of imaginative discussion of foreign policy alternatives," and the need for "more active bipartisan debate." Commenting on national "complacency at several levels--public, press, and government," Riesman declared that there was "not enough exciting treatment of foreign news by media...
Died. Peter Goelet Gerry, 78, longtime (1917-29, 1935-47) Democratic U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, wealthy great-grandson of Elbridge Gerry, a signer of the Declaration of Independence; after long illness; in Providence. His state's first popularly elected Senator, shy Peter Gerry was a staunch New Deal foe, helped organize the opposition that killed F.D.R.'s 1937 Supreme Court packing bill but, as an internationalist, supported New Deal foreign policies...
FAIR TRADE is out in South Carolina, tenth state to rule that manufacturer may not set retailers' prices. In legal battle between fair-trading General Electric Co. and Columbia, S.C. discount house, state supreme court gutted fair-trade law by striking down "non-signer clause," which says that stores must abide by fixed-price agreements even if they do not sign such pacts...