Word: south
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More sobersided was Jo Mueller's warning over the separatist dream of a South German state under the auspices of Paris: "Slice off southern Germany," he said, "and you surrender the north to the Soviets in the long run. You can't build a Paris-Munich-Vienna line without opening the way for a Moscow-Berlin-Ruhr line...
...Camden, N.J., President Arthur E. Armitage of the College of South Jersey (475 students) got off a quip. Other colleges had done well for themselves by changing their names to honor a great benefactor, * he told his audience; it might be a good idea for South Jersey...
...made it sound too straight-faced to suit him, President Armitage beat a hasty retreat. "I'm not peddling the institution," he insisted. "We're just a nice little school getting along nicely." Nobody had come through with a million, he added, but one friend of South Jersey (who remained anonymous) had pledged...
Tallest but One. He set up Yale's school of engineering, its department of drama, its Institute of Human Relations, and its observatory at Johannesburg, South Africa. To the horror of many of his trustees, he insisted on opening the first graduate school of nursing in the U.S. He was proud of the fact that he had built the tallest structure in New Haven (the 253-ft. Harkness Tower), professed to be bitterly disappointed when a gas company built a tank seven feet higher on the other side of town...
...nearly 40 years, the weekly Norfolk Journal and Guide has campaigned so skillfully for the Negro that it is the biggest Negro newspaper in the South (circ. 68,000). It is also about the most soundly edited paper in a segment of the U.S. press that is too often shrill, sensational and irresponsible. Last week the Guide won its third straight Wendell Willkie award-for public service in Negro journalism. Said Louis M. Lyons, curator of Harvard's Nieman Fellowships and chairman of the judges: "For the most part, the Negro press has a long...