Word: actions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Liberal Union joined with more than 20 other groups to form a new body to coordinate all action on Civil Liberties in the Greater Boston area, Joseph Chira '49, HLU representative, announced last night...
There is no more intent here to connect Schlesinger in any way with the American Legion than there is to deny the Shapley group the right to hold a meeting. Schlesinger did not deny that right; but his hasty action and his choice of associates made it look that way. His arguments must lose strength proportionately...
...opposition of the Legion to the Conference was inevitable and in keeping with its tradition of shortsighted reaction; the action of the State Department, if not expected, was not a great shock; but the alliance of Schlesinger with the bogus A.I.F. was certainly a surprise in his own community, which has come to think of him as a sober and considered political thinker. The Conference he chose to attack probably won't accomplish anything, thanks to the opposition to it. His opposition is justified on the grounds of personal belief; but more reasoned and more careful disapproval might have carried...
Shapley said the conference "has certainly been misrepresented in many ways, very interestingly." He expressly criticized the press because "it has chosen to ignore" the action of the State Department in denying visas to delegates from Western Europe...
Allen M. Butler, professor of Pediatrics at the Medical School and a member of the conference's "action" committee, said his group would meet today to form specific recommendations for carrying out yesterday's resolutions...