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...offered for an English prose essay on "some subject" in American government. In 1895 the candidate had to select a topic such as "The Proper Relation of the United States with Hawaii," or answer a question like "How Should Postmasters Be Selected?" Today, as in 1895, the Sumner Prize has asked for essays dealing with means and measures toward the prevention of war and the establishment of lasting peace...
...this is what Sumner A. ("Huey") Long enjoys most. A Manhattan ship broker, Long, 42, turns into a regular Captain Bligh when he takes the wheel of his aluminum-hulled, 57-ft. yawl Ondine. "He never lets you rest," complains Ondine's mate, Alex Salm. "He'll drive you out of your mind just to make a tenth of a knot more speed." Replies Long: "If you enjoy a sport to the ultimate, the ultimate is your standard...
HOWARD HUNT Sumner...
...Died. Sumner Sewall, 67, pioneer aviator and Republican Governor of Maine from 1941 to 1945, a World War I ace (seven planes, two balloons) who teamed with Juan Trippe in 1926 to fly the first New York-to-Boston airmail run, as Maine's World War II Governor organized one of the country's first Civil Defense Corps, later returned to aviation as president of American Overseas Airways, helped build it into a major transatlantic carrier before it merged with Trippe's Pan American in 1950; of a heart attack; in Bath...
Also addressing the rally were Sumner Rosen, professor of Economics at Simmons, and Michael Hercovits, a sophomore at Brandeis. At the close of the meeting a telegram calling upon Clark Kerr and Governor Edmund Brown to drop all civic and academic charges against the demonstrators was unanamously approved