Word: mcgrath
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Died. J. Howard McGrath, 62, Democratic politician, a wealthy New England real estate man who was thrice elected Governor of Rhode Island ('40, '42, '44), then served under the aegis of Good Friend Harry S. Truman as U.S. Solicitor General, U.S. Senator, Democratic National Chairman and, finally, from 1949 to 1952, Attorney General; of a heart attack; in Narragansett, R.I. McGrath's political demise came when Truman ordered him to look into cor ruption in government and McGrath hired Liberal Republican Newbold Morris as a special investigator; Morris began by investigating McGrath, which so enraged...
...Earl J. McGrath, D. Let., chancellor of Eisenhower College and former U.S. Commissioner of Education. At a time when jeremiads prophesy the demise of the independent church-related college of liberal arts, Dr. McGrath has been a most eloquent apologist and effective proponent of this educational tradition...
...Fadden's baseball list are Henry Chauncey '28 and Eddle McGrath...
...With McGrath's help, the college committee members raised another $73,000, contributed $27,000 of their own. They took that news to Johns Hopkins University President Milton Eisenhower. He told them: "I'm calling my brother tonight and telling him to give you the green light." By this time, Ike was ready to encourage the project. Skinner and Rosenkrans got the Presbyterian Synod of New York to approve a loose affiliation with the school, largely for the sake of fund raising. A 265-acre alfalfa field along Lake Cayuga was selected as the site, architects were hired...
...McGrath meanwhile formulated his plans. He hopes to draw students from roughly the top third of high school classes rather than from the top 10% as many select schools do. His own high school grades were below average, yet he made Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Buffalo. "This country," he says emphatically, "was not built by the upper 10%." Full professors will be paid an average $15,000 a year, get 20 paid weeks off every third year. The curriculum will be pared to a relatively small number of liberal-arts courses to enable students...