Word: williams
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Speaking as a loyal and devout Catholic, I was as much astonished as anyone else at the decoration of William Randolph Hearst . . . and very happy to know that I am under no obligation whatever to agree with our Pope in this matter...
...Cervantes died on April 23, 1616, the same day as William Shakespeare" [TIME, Oct. 3], Not quite so. The same date, but not the same day. The English bard died on April 23 Old Style, or May 3 New Style, the system of reckoning already adopted in Spain...
...other was William Henry Hastie, 44, wartime civilian aide to the Secretary of War, and since 1946 governor of the Virgin Islands. Lawyer Hastie became the first Negro on the federal bench when he was appointed U.S. district judge in the Virgin Islands in 1937. Last week he was named to the third circuit court of appeals (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and the Virgin Islands), thus became the first Negro appointed to the second highest court in the federal system. Able Governor Hastie got his advancement in the same week that a college classmate got a sharp reverse: Manhattan Councilman...
Although it is difficult to attribute last night's lack of activity to any specific cause, the letter from Dartmouth athletic director William J. McCarter to William J. Bingham '16, Director of Harvard Athletics, seems to have been borne out in fact. McCarter wrote Bingham a short while ago that he had instructed his "gestapo" to prevent any demonstrations...
...excitement started when Inspector William Trodden and Lieutenant Joseph B. Breen noticed a car proceeding up Quincy Street in the wrong direction...