Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aptheker based his charges primarily on the basis of the content of Schlesinger's latest book, "The Vital Center," which suggest a common ground for political action by moderate conservatives and moderate liberals. Aptheker, called Schlesinger's position a program groomed to the needs of a rolling class seeking war and fascism...
Under its first dean, Edwin F. Gay, the fledging School heard lectures by outside business men and grew from a 33-man class in 1910 to a 156-man class in 1917. But the first world war dispersed both faculty and students, and in 1919 only 68 men were around to receive their M.B.A...
...start of the second world war, degrees-awarded figures, starting with the 33 given out in 1910, had cumulated to a total of 7,757. During the war, however, the School cut out all degree awarding, choosing rather to lend its full experience to the war effort...
From May, 1943 (when the last civilians left the School) until February, 1946, Harvard managed to train over 14,000 army and navy officers in the use of supplies, as well as 500 business was who further crowded the School for War Industry Training and Advanced Management programs. This latter program, a 13-week course for executives, continues today, so popular did it prove during the war...
Robert L. Wolff, visiting lecturer in History from the University of Wisconsin, will also speak at the meeting. Wolff worked on OSS operations in Yugoslavia during the war and is expected by Schoen to comment on Tito's position in Yugoslavian politics...