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...candidacy of a major candidate is very hard to measure, concentrated effort by a few dozen workers in a local election can easily prove the difference between victory and defeat. The Liberal Union has worked upon this theory, and aided the election in the fall of 1954 of Sumner Kaplan to the State Legislature, the first Democrat ever elected in Brookline...

Author: By John A. Rava, | Title: College Political Clubs: Activity, For a Change | 2/18/1956 | See Source »

University Professor Sumner Slichter himself a frequent adviser to the economic council, agreed that Congress should empower the Federal Reserve to act, but doubted whether the System would need to use such limiting power in the near future...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: Ike's Outlook Supported by 3 Economists | 1/25/1956 | See Source »

...came around to it, and that Churchill upbraided the reluctant Anthony Eden: "I don't want you running back to the War Cabinet trying to unsell this proposal before I get there." White also noted that Secretary Hull complained bitterly during this meeting against his former Under Secretary, Sumner Welles, who "seemed to be operating a second State Department." (Morgenthau and White, who had drawn up the plan for Germany without Hull's knowledge, were in that case operating a third State Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Toward a Lost Peace | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

Today's American economy is less sensitive than ever to political change, Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Economy of America More Stable Than Ever Before, Slichter States | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...white people in the region raised a defense fund approaching $10,000 for Defendants Bryant and Milam. They hired five of Sumner's resident lawyers, who produced expert witnesses-including a doctor and an embalmer-to testify that the bloated, decomposing body had been in the river for at least ten days, and therefore could not have been Emmett Till. Sheriff Strider took the stand for the defense and said the same thing: "If it had been one of my own boys, I couldn't have identified it." In most of the U.S., this conflict over the identity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: Trial by Jury | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

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