Word: thorpeness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...test of the law's applicability to teachers is now in the embryo stage. In February of this year, George B. Thorp, a lecturer at Newark College of Engineering's School for Industrial Education refused to sign the loyalty oath, claiming privilege against self-incrimination under the U.S. and New Jersey constitutions...
Part of the answer lay with an eight-man committee coordinating the work of 25 different U.S. Government agencies. Headed by Assistant Secretary of State Willard Thorp,* the committee has been at work for the last three weeks fleshing out the plan's bare bones...
...Thorp's committee has found that providing technical assistance to underdeveloped nations is no problem. Since 1938, the U.S. has spent close to $100 million doing just that for Latin America. This year, under the sponsorship of the State Department's Institute of Inter-American Affairs and the Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific and Cultural Cooperation, some 460 experts are on loan to Latin American governments...
...Thorp's committee was concerned only with the know-how part of the program. Elsewhere in Washington, men were trying to figure how best to coax U.S. capital. Some of the proposals...
...further news of Assistant Secretary Thorp, see INTERNATIONAL...