Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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UNRRA looked to New York's brass-lunged Ham Fish like a "gigantic international WPA." Illinois's Jessie Sumner had figured out that the whole thing was a scheme to "make Stalin dictator of Europe." California's Bertrand W. Gearhart cried that it was unconstitutional. For these and other objections, Republican members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee were ready with patient, sense-making answers...
...most distinguished rebels of his generation finally had a job last week that suited him. It was high time. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 71, by primogeniture third Earl Russell and Viscount Amberley, in his own right a world-famed mathematician and philosopher, accepted a Cambridge fellowship. It was offered him by his famed alma mater, Trinity College, which in 1916 dismissed him for a pacifism he no longer holds...
...Bertrand Russell, philosophical hot potato of U.S. campuses (TIME, Feb. 1, et seq.), let it be known that he could not support his family in the U.S., would therefore return to England. As a jobhunter he had been turned down, he said, by Harvard, Columbia, N.Y.U. and the Universities of Chicago and California...
...Jenkins did not yet seem wholly convinced. But except for some loud ranting by California's rampageous Bertrand W. Gearhart and some quiet sniping by New York's crustacean Daniel A. Reed, the Republicans generally seemed relaxed. At this point renewal looked like a safe bet. Economic isolationism might still have a strong hold on the Jenkinses of the U.S., but it was clear that the nation, however slowly, was marching carefully ahead on a path toward participation in the outside world...
...Bishop in the Episcopal Church relishes a tussle over principle more than New York's stern, small William Thomas Manning. He has taken on and worsted many a smart tussler, including Judge Ben B. Lindsey, Bertrand Russell...