Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Strategy on Eight. The delegates had been besieged for their votes by five candidates for the gubernatorial nomination: a well-to-do manufacturer in the basement, who had set up the best bar of any candidate; a lawyer, and the mayor of Waterbury, quartered on the second floor; Congressman John Davis Lodge on four, a onetime governor on six. Amid the general fuss and clutter, two men, in a feud that was both personal and political, worked hardest to collar delegates. Handsome, fast-talking Lawyer J. Kenneth Bradley, out for the nomination for governor, was trying to regain the party...
...made plausible the liberal faith in inevitable and rational progress. And the First World War was a decade and a half away. Even the Class of 1925, despite one world war and postwar disillusionment, could hardly have envisaged the economic collapse of 1929, the rise of totalitarianism, and a second world war. But to us of the Class of 1950, the outlook is no longer optimistic. The chronic crisis of fifty years has dissipated the warm illusions of 1900 and the warmed-over illusions of 1925. And it is a crisis which seems to be taking a second wind...
Representative Robert W. Kean '15 (R-N. J.), a member of the Ways and Means Committee, offered a second reason--the unfairness of the present system. He told the CRIMSON, "If a business owned by a college does not pay the corporation tax which every other business in the same industry pays, it could undersell all of its competitors and perhaps put them out of business...
...second bill, the Fair Education Practices Act, empowered the State Board of Education to issue cease and desist orders to any school or college found guilty of discriminating unfairly in admissions on grounds of race, religion, or nationality...
...things, one of lesser, one of greater importance make this movie unusual. First, the photography: ranging from England to the Italian Alps to Rome, the camera picks up some beautiful and spectacular backgrounds for its central shots. Second, the music: Tito Gobbi's excellent baritone voice alone would make the picture worth attending. And Elena Rizzerieria, who joins Gobbi in singing the "Glass Mountain," the operatic composition from which the picture gets its name, also has a fine voice. With these two "The Glass Mountain" is good entertainment...