Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Forum was originally scheduled as an all-Law School affair, but no Law School Faculty member could be procured to take the Wallace viewpoint. Ciardi has consented to defend the Third Party, on the basis that it is "really a second party," since there is little difference in the Republican and Democratic platforms...
...argument between the rival political camps, Publicity Director Rowland Brown 3L has explained, since none of the participants are committed members of the campaigning parties. Brown expects that "no campaign promises will be made, nor party records kept sacred. Rather, it will be a wide-open, give-and-take affair...
...affair at the Trocadero theater made Uruguayans, including President Luis Batlle Berres, think again. Said the President in a ringing speech next day: "It is odd to think that there are Uruguayan citizens who would use force to impose their ideas on others. As citizen and President, I respect the beliefs of different men and different parties, but also as citizen and President, I say there must be respect for different opinions . . . This is not a challenge but a warning. If this is the first episode of a series, democratic government will meet it with the necessary force...
Storm in Black & White. Gus Beale's test comes when a Negro pilot, member of a squadron that Washington has created merely to pacify pro-Negro opinion, is beaten up by a white colonel. The affair has nothing to do with racial prejudice, but before the next day is out it has ballooned into a shocking black & white scandal. Angry Negro officers, hitherto amenable to unofficial discriminatory rules, decide that this is the moment to claim their right to membership in the "restricted" officers' club. Knowing the effect this will have on white personnel, Gus Beale orders...
...Tufts eleven opened into season this year by losing, 7 to 0, to Amherst, a team which the Crimson later blanked, 3 to 0. The Jumbos then dropped a 5 to 0 affair to the University of Connecticut, and finally, last Saturday, scored their first goal and beat Fort Devens, one of the weakest teams in this area, by a 1 to 0 score...