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Word: winthrops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city, notably around Inman Square, but is also applies to the University. Last spring a grease fire broke out in the Lowell House kitchen, and it was only with the greatest amount of sweating and swearing that the fire engines could be coaxed down Mill Street between Lowell and Winthrop to the scene of the accident...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Parking: Harvard's Perennial Problem | 9/25/1957 | See Source »

...very next day he went into a state court, testified that integration would mean bloodshed in Little Rock, won an injunction against it-which was promptly overruled by U.S. District Judge Ronald Davies. Then, the Sunday before Little Rock schools were to open, word came to adopted Arkansan Winthrop Rockefeller, chairman of the highly successful Arkansas Industrial Development Commission, that Faubus was going to call out the National Guard to stop integration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: What Orval Hath Wrought | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...carefully noncommittal about the wisdom of Faubus' action. Arkansas' liberal Senator William Fulbright, a wholehearted Faubus supporter in the past, refused to answer his phone, packed up his bags and took off for London and a meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. The officers of adopted Arkansan Winthrop Rockefeller's industry-seeking Arkansas Industrial Development Commission said priva;te-ly that Faubus had seriously hurt their cause. Said Little Rock's Mayor Wood-row Wilson Mann: "The only effect of his action is to create tensions where none existed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Making a Crisis in Arkansas | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...first three years in office he won a reputation as an Arkansas-style progressive. He increased taxes, got more money for schools and highways, joined up with Winthrop Rockefeller to create a state industrial development commission. As a product of the hill country (where there are few Negroes), he had no background of race prejudice. In his successful campaign for re-election in 1956, against an avowed segregationist, he came out mildly against enforced integration, but won strong support from Negroes for his moderation. His friends thought he was just playing a vote-trading game last year when he backed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No More Matcksticfcs | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

Dean Bundy, Dean Bender, and Ronald M. Ferry, retiring Master of Winthrop House, presented some of the major problems confronting the College to a large group of Class of '32 reuners yesterday in Paine Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bundy, Bender, Ferry Discuss College Tasks | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

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