Word: vineyard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Class Poet is George Washington Goethals II of Leverett House and Vineyard Haven, who won out over John L. Handy by 11 votes. Biggest surprise of the election came in the ballotting when George Freeman Andrews, a mythical character proposed by the Nomination Committee, gathered 13 votes. Designed as a test on the class's voting ability, the Committee was satisfied that the majority of the class voted carefully...
...slew a red-tape dragon last week. The dragon was called "layering." This is how it worked: if a toiler in WPB's vineyard wanted to get in touch with an Army procurement man, say, he was expected to write a memo which filtered through layers of top executives up and over to the War Department, down through layers again to the procurement man he wanted to reach. Then his answer would boggle back through the same layers, days or weeks later, smothered with seals, O.K.s, stamped approvals and question marks. Henceforth he had WPB and Army instructions...
...income which supports Leland Stanford, Jr. University comes from a vineyard...
Last week reality caught up with Charles Augustus Lindbergh. From his hideaway on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., he offered his services to the Army Air Corps from which he resigned last April, after Frank lin Roosevelt had pegged him as a new-day "Copperhead." At his age (40 next month), Lindbergh probably could not get a job as a combat flyer. If he were given a commission-for which, as a new applicant, he would have to wait his turn-he could serve his country usefully as a specialist in aviation. He knows a lot more about that subject...
Then he wrote his one book, a ponderous, lifeless, two-volume work which was technically a history of Santo Domingo, actually a careful indictment of U.S. foreign policy in the Hemisphere. The title was Naboth's Vineyard (Naboth was done out of his vineyard by King Ahab), and Welles struck out at Ahab-like Uncle Sam, at dollar diplomacy, at the use of military force to achieve diplomatically negotiable ends. He urged instead the stimulation of commercial ties, the interchange of experts, the sharing of the responsibility of keeping the Hemispheric peace. This was the germ of the Good...