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...took over the presidency of the University of Alabama in 1953, the post was to have been the climax of a distinguished educational career. After graduating and getting an M.A. from the University of Alabama, Carmichael went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, eventually rose to be chancellor of Vanderbilt University, later president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. For Alabama, it was something of a coup to get a man of such a reputation...
...meeting with Pusey, were Harvie Branscomb, chancellor of Vanderbilt University, and Courtney C. Smith '38, president of Swarthmore College. Smith is also a Harvard overseer...
CRIMSON representatives, flanked by ballot-watchers from the student political organizations, will collect the polls in the House dining halls, at Harkness Commons, and at Vanderbilt Hall of the Medical School. Women at Radcliffe will find the polls in their mail-boxes this morning and are asked to deposit them in the Student Government boxes at bell desks...
...puzzlement was not without some justification. It was generally known that several other prominent jurists, lawyers, and men of affairs were being considered by the President to fill the seat on the High Court being vacated by Sherman Minton. Among them were Thomas E. Dewey, Chief Justice Vanderbilt of the New Jersey Supreme Court, and Herbert Brownell. But Eisenhower finally selected a relatively unknown and young (fifty years) justice from New Jersey...
...highest tribunal appeared. The Justice admits having friends on the administration: Secretary of Labor Mitchell, Presidential Secretary Bernard Shanley (whom Brennan considers "an intimate"), and Deputy Attorney General William P. Rogers, among the most prominent. But their recommendation, along with an admittedly helpful laudatory letter from Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt of New Jersey, cannot account entirely for the President's choice...