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...Palace, Brown & Co. proudly waved a stack of telegrams supporting their draft movement. "We're off and running," said Pat Brown. "We want this movement to begin in the West, and there's no turning back: we're in this until Stevenson releases us at the convention." Los Angeles Democratic Leader Paul Ziffren, who could be De Sapio's twin for looks, signed the Stevenson telegram. Nevertheless, he visited De Sapio and tried to soften the thrust...
...eyed, used to tell Thurgood and his brother Aubrey, "If anyone calls you nigger, you not only got my permission to fight him-you got my orders to fight him." Once, Thurgood followed orders. Delivery boy for a hat store, he was trying to board a trolley with a stack of hats so high he "couldn't see over or around them. I was climbing aboard when a white man yanked me backwards. 'Nigguh,' he said, 'don't you push in front of no white lady again.' I hadn't seen any white...
...Houghton Library for rare books was opened, complete with temperature and humidity control. In 1945, in response to a hint that Metcalf had dropped at a dinner some years before, Manhattan Financier Thomas W. Lamont (1892) gave Harvard $1,500,000 for a new open-stack undergraduate library. Meanwhile, Metcalf helped to set up the New England Deposit Library, in which colleges and universities in the Greater Boston area store their little-used books, and the Farmington Plan by which colleges and universities buy foreign publications in common, thus covering the foreign field thoroughly while avoiding wasteful duplications...
...peeg, peeg, peeg," he crooned. Then he glanced at his watch. "I better get back to work," he said. The reporters trailed after him into the small original fieldstone wing of the 100-year-old house. The President sat down at a small pine desk and glumly contemplated a stack of bills to be signed into law. "I built this as an office,"' he explained as he began to sign the bills that Secretary Ann Whitman handed him. "But Mrs. Eisenhower took it over, and the only office I have left is six foot square." Earlier the President...
...into the historic Manhattan (atom bomb) Project, working through the war with great effect on the key problem of separating the isotopes of uranium. Not until news of the Hiroshima bomb came out did Libby mention his work at home. On that day he came home with a tall stack of newspapers and said triumphantly: "This is what I've been doing." Libby did not stay with the atom bomb after the war-not because he was opposed to working on weapons, but because, like many other scientists, he wanted to get back to independent research. He was taken...