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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many Senators took a different view. The Senator who had started it all, Virginia's friendly-to-Eisenhower Harry Byrd, grunted that he had "never been so perplexed." Said Vermont's Republican George Aiken: "I don't see how Mr. Wilson ever could act as Secretary of Defense when his own personal interests are tied up with General Motors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Conflict of Interest | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

...time), went on to reach the top of his profession as president (1950-51) of the American Institute of Accountants. A Democrat, he liked Ike but took no active part in the campaign. Blunt, hard-driving Coleman Andrews trod on many a toe as Richmond city comptroller and Virginia state auditor, and friends predict he will spare no toes as the nation's chief tax collector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Appointments | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

...past few years, Doug, who calls himself an "international commuter," and his Virginia-born second wife (the former Mrs. G. Huntington Hartford, who succeeded Joan Crawford) have been more & more selective about the guests they choose to share their dining room. Abandoned are the ostentatious parties for 300 or more which Doug once gave in honor of such friends as Noel Coward and Earl Mountbatten of Burma. At No. 28, The Boltons, in fashionable South Kensington, the Fairbankses now confine themselves to more intimate affairs with a guest list whittled down to a mere 30 or 40. "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: By a Little Finger | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

...remarks at the opening of Lamont Library he stressed this free access theme: "Harvard was synonymous with free minds openly browsing through all the orthodoxies and heresies of history, through good book, bad books, and mediocre books. Harvard deserved more than Virginia, the great inscription of Thomas Jefferson, 'Here we fear no heresy where truth is free to combat error.'" But he noted also contrary forces, "a clever subtile devil, appearing in devious ways." Sometimes his attack has been frontal, as "when a century age there was a restriction on anti-slavery discussion. . .or when he appeared in the guise...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: Provost Buck: Consistent Freedom | 1/8/1953 | See Source »

...testimony, the witness changed his story: on second thought, said he, Rogers' coat was brown, whereas the one found in the car was blue. Last week, just two days before Christmas, Governor Battle signed a pardon, and Silas Rogers, after nine years behind bars, stepped from the Virginia State Penitentiary a free man. Wrote Editor Kilpatrick: "It is, for this newspaper, the end of a long trail-a trail at once heart-warming and heart-breaking." Silas Rogers, standing in a blue suit which he had made himself in the prison tailor shop for the occasion, looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Case of Silas Rogers | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

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