Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Confirmation. Meanwhile, up on Capitol Hill, Senator Arthur Vandenberg brought Hoffman's appointment before the Senate for confirmation. Said Vandenberg: during the months of discussion, the man most frequently mentioned for the job had been 56-year-old Paul Hoffman. Hoffman, said Vandenberg, "was found to be the common denominator of the thought of the nation." Hoffman was also well aware of the need to cooperate with Congress, Van added reassuringly. The Senate confirmed him unanimously, in 10 minutes...
Students for Stassen, along with their Radcliffe and Wellesley guests, got the inside story on their candidate's prospects last night from Jack Higgons and Robert J. Rosthal of the nation-wide Citizens for Stassen. Over 60 people attended the meeting, which was held in Winthrop Junior Common Room...
...Eliot House Junior Common room was the scene of the price control controversy. In judged competition, Crimson debaters S. William Green '50 and Jerome Spunt '50 argued the winning debate, emphasizing that price control measures "unfortunately hit at the effect instead of the cause of the economic maladjustment." David Lindaurer and Don Kilgore, who won the individual award as best speaker, represented the affirmative side of the question...
...especially welcome all Wallaceites to our first open meeting," Daniel M. Pierce '49, Chairman of the Stassen for President movement announced last night. The forum is slated for 8:30 o'clock at the Winthrop House Junior Common Room...
Describing the Republican race for nomination as "one big horse race with most of the odds even," Sinclair Weeks '14, Republican National Committeeman from Massachusetts, last night told 50 people assembled in the Lowell Junior Common Room that General MacArthur's candidacy cannot, however, "be seriously considered...