Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...January, 1948, Leonard wrote a letter to a local newspaper criticizing the gross receipts tax and urging instead a state income tax. He spoke purely as a private citizen, but he was called in by a Rutgers official and told that since his letter reflected a viewpoint, that viewpoint should conform more closely to that of the college administration...
Ashby was installed at a meeting of the Trustees on July 21. He spoke to the Board for two hours, and during this session the Board decided to dismiss two central figures in the "Olivet Policy," Professor T. Barton Akeley, who had taught political science at the college for 12 years, and his wife, the college librarian...
George Parker, assistant professor of philosophy and religion, came to Evansville in September, 1946. His yearly contract was renewed on March 18, and at that time President Lincoln B. Hale spoke to Parker about his politics. Parker was chairman of the Vanderburg County Citizens for Wallace. Hale said that Parker's political views were his own business so long as they didn't reflect on the college...
...Many who did fight were captured and are in government prisons. In an old Turkish jail at Ioannina there are 300 such captives. I spoke to some of them who had belonged to the guerrillas' crack Ypsilanti Brigade. One, an 18-year-old officer, trained in Bulgaria, said he was told by the Communists that the U.S. wanted Greece for a colony. 'Sometimes when losses were heavy,' he said, 'we wondered if perhaps we had made a mistake...
Amid Japan's general satisfaction, bushy-haired Prince Chichibu, 46-year-old brother of Emperor Hirohito, spoke a few words of caution. "I think this is the beginning of recovery," he said, "but there are still so many black-market millionaires in Japan that honest people have lost the will to work." Chichibu doubts that Japan's slender resources can support her huge and growing population. An avid fan of Li'l Abner, the Prince wistfully recalled his hero's fabulous friend which, as a kind of one-animal Marshall Plan, had promised to provide humanity...