Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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David B. Stone '49, Sumner Zachs '51, and Anthony Partridge '50 won a color slide contest out of 175 entries...
...before June graduations. One is, of course, that of the Secretary of State. Anybody who pays the slightest attention to the newspapers (or the radio) knows that Marshall intends to retire, and that there are at least 17 candidates mentioned to replace him. Prominent among these are Mrs. Roosevelt, Sumner Welles, General Eisenhower, and, surprisingly enough, John Foster Dulles. During the past year, Dulles has been popping up like Banquo's ghost every time the columnists sit down to a free lunch of rumor, insinuation, and prediction. He ought to win by seniority, at any rate...
...prime President Roosevelt for the visit, Sumner Welles sent him a long solemn memorandum about Somoza and Nicaragua. According to a story told around Washington, Roosevelt read the memo right through, wisecracked: "As a Nicaraguan might say, he's a sonofabitch but he's ours...
...that year Charles Sumner, 1830, and ex-President Adams joined with other Harvard graduates to form the Free Soil Party. College politics then became tangled for a few years; the Board of Overseers, for instance, was a strange mixture of Northern Whigs, Free Soilers, and Democrats. But by 1860, the dominant Republican sentiment, which has lasted down to the present, was clear. A poll of the Class of 1860 turned up nine Democrats, 23 Constitutional Unionists, and 74 Republicans. The Unionists held the College's first torchlight parade shortly before election that year, carrying signs such as "Bell (the party...
...last week, the controversy over the Nation had boiled up into a first-rate argument over freedom of the press. In the current issue of the Nation, 107 educators, lawyers, clergymen and writers, such as Reinhold Niebuhr, Sumner Welles, Publishers Palmer Hoyt, Mark Ethridge and Ralph McGill, signed "An Appeal to Reason and Conscience" demanding that the New York City board change its mind. New York City's School Superintendent William Jansen had defended the ban as "based on the long-established American tradition that religious discussions and criticism of religion have no place in the classroom...