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Word: vandervoort (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the seven-man board voted, it studiously ignored the protests of its two most liberal members. "I hate to see us get so narrow," complained Mrs. A. S. Vandervoort Jr. "We will just create a bunch of little Davy Crocketts and little Daughters of the Republic." "It appears to me," said former President W. W. Kemmerer of the University of Houston later, "that the board is encircling the state with a cotton curtain to prevent the children from peeping out." Nonsense, retorted Acting Superintendent G. C. Scarborough, a member of the local White Citizens' Council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cotton Curtain | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

Laurence E. Mallinckrodt '30, St. Louis, president and director of Scruggs, Vandervoort and Barney, Inc., department store...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Senator Kennedy Nominated to Alumni Board of Overseers | 1/18/1957 | See Source »

Gerald Kilb Vogel '50, Economics; Richard Allen Webster '50, Philosophy; William Vandervoort Whitehead '50, English; David Herndon Wright '50, Fine Arts; Harrison Morris Wright, '50, History; Michael Bezalel Yarmolinsky '50, Biology; Raymond Edward Zelder '50, Economics; Harold Zirin '50, Astronomy; Edward Edom Zukoski '50, Engineering Sciences; Melvin Leonard Zurier '50, Government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brooks Addresses 94 New PBK Members | 6/20/1950 | See Source »

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