Word: williams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of State William P. Snow to be U.S. Ambassador to Burma. Maine-born Snow, 52, will replace resigning Walter P. McConaughy...
...candidate, his closest friends and associates have not. This was borne out emphatically at a stag dinner Dick Nixon attended recently in New York, heart of the Rockefeller domain. The guests were all intimate friends of President Eisenhower's -such men as Coca-Cola's Board Chairman William Robinson, General Electric's President Ralph Cordiner, Cities Service's Board Chairman W. Alton Jones, Financier Sidney Weinberg...
Spreading Fever. A secondary imminent problem for the Eisenhower committee to consider is Panama. There last week the government went gunning for Canal Zone Governor William E. Potter, U.S. Army Major General on active service, who a fortnight ago firmly put down riots aimed at raising the Panamanian flag over the 10-by 50-mile zone. The U.S. reply to a demand for Potter's removal: a flat...
...several areas the Club's activities overlapped those of the HYRC, which in part accounted for its decision to join the Young Republican Club. Both groups, for example, supported and did campaign work for William S. Barnes, assistant Dean of the Law School...
Uncorseted Bliss. German-Jewish Papa Stein was a wool merchant, and some would argue that Gertrude was, too. As a baby, Gertrude, wrote her mother, was "a little Schnatterer. She talks all day long and repeats everything that is said or done." At Radcliffe, Gertrude became Philosopher William James's favorite Schnatterer and roamed the classrooms in uncorseted bliss ("She always seemed to like her own fat," a friend later said). She also experimented in what came to be known as automatic writing. This may have inspired her incantatory rhythms and inane repetitions, though Author Brinnin bristles...