Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a stormy five and one-half years as an official College organization, the Harvard chapter of the American Veteran's Committee has been re-absorbed by the Cambridge group. Originally, the College committee had branched out from the Cambridge one and gained University recognition; now it is being dissolved...
Most of the AVC's battles, however, were waged in the field of housing. Here, the objectives were more apartments, some sort of rent stabilization, and maintenance of the housing units, which the University threatened to close down. Before it came to Harvard, the organization fought for veteran's housing, and tried to get the University to open developments at Jarvis Field and Fort Devens. Harvard soon complied, setting up 60 units at each location...
...Answer Yes or No." Subcommittee Counsel Robert Morris produced an I.P.R. report of a meeting in Moscow (1936) at which Lattimore conferred with top representatives of the I.P.R.'s Russian council. The Russians, Geographer V. E. Motylev and Comintern Veteran G. N. Voitinsky, discussed Pacific Affairs. Motylev asked for a "more definite line" in articles. According to the I.P.R. report: "[Lattimore] said he would like to meet the Soviet suggestion as far as possible ... If the Soviet group would start on such a line, he would be able to make [other councils] cooperate more fully...
...done a good job in trying circumstances. For one thing, he managed to compose the Air Force's most troublesome internal issue-the struggle for dominance between the champions of strategic v. tactical air power-though Van himself is a veteran tactical air officer. Contrary to the fears of the Air Force that he was not going to be forceful enough for the job, he has been a forthright and effective advocate of the case for air power-e.g., having warned the nation last fall of mounting Russian strength, he got the Joint Chiefs of Staff (of which...
Died. Keats† Speed, 72, veteran newsman, longtime (1916-50) editorial boss of the New York Sun, heartbroken presider over its setting when the 116-year-old paper was submerged in the Scripps-Howard chain in 1950; of a heart attack after two years in retirement; in Manhattan...