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...prime duties of every college man to become well versed in the great questions confronting this nation today and by so doing to fit himself to meet those questions squarely." Shortly afterwards committees were formed to work for the three major presidntial candidates, President Taft, Theodore Roosevelt '80 and Governor Woodrow Wilson...
...lifelong devotion to the New Deal. When they arrived in the Senate on the same day in 1949, Humphrey was generally regarded as a brash young radical, a "black knight," as he puts it, intent on tilting against the senatorial establishment ruled by Democrat Richard Russell and Republican Robert Taft...
Sitting on Situs. Nonetheless, Meany's blast brought the smoldering feud between labor and the Democratic Party close to open warfare. Already irked by the Administration's tepid efforts to win repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act's Section 14(b), labor's No. 1 legislative goal for the 89th Congress, union tempers were raised to boiling point last week by the House's failure to act on another measure eagerly sought by the unions. Stalled in committee was a bill that would over turn a 1951 U.S. Supreme Court decision prohibiting a union from...
...Ezra Styles surge in the opening minutes of the last quarter broke Kirkland's halftime lead. To take the pressure off of Taft, who was being steadily double-teamed at guard, Kirkland coach Kenneth Deitch substituted sophomore Peter Banys...
Banys scored fourteen points, but with five minutes remaining Kirkland was down five and Yale had all the momentum to win. Strong rebound work by sophomore William Timpson and center John Leshy, a senior, combined with Taft's flashing performance...