Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hugo Black, appointed twelve years ago in the midst of outraged objections when Black, an ex-police judge, later a U.S. Senator, had to admit that once he had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama; now rated as one of the best-read, hardest working, most learned justices on the court...
...live in the eleven Communists on trial in New York are continually adding fuel to the fire by showing how very far from an under-standing of real democracy they are, while at the same time well-intentioned authorities like President Conant decry the witch hunt only to admit its fundamental promises. The Commission seems to say. 'Let us not have a big witch hunt--let us have a moderate little which hunt...
Harry Truman had called the 80th Congress' D.P. Act "a pattern of discrimination and intolerance." The D.P. Commission had declared it "all but unworkable," because it excluded thousands of Jews and Catholics. In nine months of operation, only 34,569 had been admitted out of a two-year quota of 205,000. Last week an Administration bill to admit 339,000 D.P.s in the next two years under more generous provisions reached the floor of the House...
...first place we could sell cards only to members of the College, thus making the maximum possible sale 5000, not 12,000 as was claimed. However we set a realistic quota of 1000 cards to be sold, and we sold 550 cards. We will be the first to admit that this is low, bat if considered in its true context as a part of the whole, which was quite successful, and not as the whole, which was quite successful, and not as the whole PCS itself, then it certainly does not constitute ground for labelling the whole year's work...
...short, we certainly admit that advertising and publicity and even contracting could have been hauled more smoothly; however, to overlook the great progress that a small overworked committee has accomplished, and by exaggerating the results of one aspect, to call the whole year's work a failure, as the heading of the editorial does, is not only untrue, but also unfair. Donald L. Bornstein '50 Chairman, Harvard NSA P.C. Committee Chairman, Boston Area P.C.S...