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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discovery threw Bourbon County politicos into an uproar. The FBI went to work on the case. A citizens' committee was organized and elected Bourbon County's Lawyer Cassius M. Clay* as its chairman. Several county grand juries investigated the case but took no action. As time dragged on it began to look as though the mystery might never be solved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Eruption in Bourbon County | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...Communists told it, such books as the party's official History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Stalin's Foundations of Leninism were taught and studied by the faithful, not only as dogma, but "as guides to action." Only by violent action, the curriculum taught, could bourgeois governments be overthrown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Heart of the Matter | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...busy session Thursday night, the Student Council postponed action on a proposed new final club, approved a proposal to give itself veto power on Radcliffe applicants to Harvard organizations approved a proposal for itself to review at least every four years charters of all Harvard organizations, and passed the charter of a new social club, Southerners Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Puts Off Action On Proposed New Club | 5/14/1949 | See Source »

...action to table the proposed charter of The Sphinx Club was last night called unprecedented by Dean Bender. "This situation has never come up before," he said. "I believe the Council has vote power on charters of all Harvard organizations, but I don't remember their ever using it before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Puts Off Action On Proposed New Club | 5/14/1949 | See Source »

When the first race began, this youth swung into action. His eyes roved over the waters, his hand jerked spasmodically, and he shouted hoarsely throughout the race. Unfortunately, his remarks were addressed directly into the wind, and no one heard...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 5/12/1949 | See Source »

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