Word: spencer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead of friendship, Communist organizations denounced the A.P.'s Spencer Moosa and the U.P.'s Michael Keon for "base insults" to the people of Peiping. Cried one Red committee: "We cannot tolerate frenzied barkings from the scum of the journalistic world...
...newly opened schools. In turn he enrolled in a police school, a soapmaking school, a law school, a commercial school, an economics school. He finally wound up in the Hunan Normal School where he hoped to be trained as a teacher. He read translations of Adam Smith, Darwin, Rousseau, Spencer. Says Mao: "I was then an idealist...
PERCY CRAIG SPENCER, 55, a lawyer turned oil executive, took over the presidency of Sinclair Oil Corp., succeeding aging (72) Founder Harry F. Sinclair, who was ready to leave responsibility to younger men. "Spence" Spencer, born in Jasper, N.Y., graduated as a lawyer from the University of Nebraska and became general counsel of Producers & Refiners Corp. in 1927. When it merged with Sinclair in 1934, Spencer went along. Said Harry Sinclair (who becomes board chairman) : "No changes in major policies are to be anticipated...
Died. Theodore Spencer, 46, Harvard University English professor (he held the famed Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, first occupied by John Quincy Adams, 1806-09) and poet; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass...
China-born Spencer Moosa had not covered the Chinese war since 1931 without learning a few things about censors. Last week the knowledge came in handy. When the first Chinese Communist shells exploded in Peiping, Associated Press Correspondent Moosa tried to tell the world. The Nationalist censor said no. So Old China Hand Moosa banged out a furious message to the A.P. explaining why he couldn't report that Peiping was under bombardment. The censor passed it-and Moosa had his beat. Excerpts...