Word: wofford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...U.W.F. movement started in a bathtub, roughly speaking, some seven years ago. Harris Wofford, a student at an eastern high-school, heard Clarence Streit (author of "Union Now") over the radio, while bathing. Inspired by Streit's plea for a supra-national government, Wofford leaped out of the tub and proceeded to form an organization known as the Student Federalists. But it wasn't until after the San Francisco Conference in 1945 that the campaign for One World began to give off steam...
Defense Attorney Tom Wofford objected strenuously. The statements, he claimed, might be legal evidence against their individual makers, but not against other defendants. The statements had not been made under oath; the defense charged that they had been obtained under duress...
...labor of love. His contributing editors: Owen J. Roberts, former U.S. Supreme Court justice; Russell W. Davenport, onetime managing editor of FORTUNE and Willkie campaign coordinator; Stringfellow Barr, president of St. John's College; A. Powell Davies, clergyman-author (The Faith of an Unrepentant Liberal); and youthful Harris Wofford Jr., founder of Student Federalists (the junior branch of Federal Union). Sparkplug of the eight full-time staffers, all under 30, is energetic Managing Editor Helen B. Hamer, alumna of Manhattan's Greenwich Villager and Science Illustrated. The "panel of contributors" includes Wickham Steed, Elmo Roper, Pertinax, Magyar Cartoonists...
Last week Harris Wofford Jr., 18, was an Army Air Forces trainee at Alabama's Craig Field. On Armistice Day, his Student Federalists, now several thousand strong in schools and colleges throughout the U.S., celebrated its first anniversary as a national organization...
...group, the Student Federalists tend to be as well-bred as Harris Wofford Jr.'s first recruits in wealthy Westchester County. But few have had the chance to become as well-traveled as Founder Wofford. Son of an executive of huge Prudential Insurance Co., he circled the globe with his grandmother at eleven, spent a Christmas Eve in Bethlehem, was in Rome when Mussolini was ranting out of the League of Nations. He remembers Shanghai as it looked after it was bombed by the Japanese...