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Coming at the same time as a petition signed by 300 members of the College to affirm his appointment, the letter states that "the organized attack upon the appointment . . . . is a challenge to all Americans who cherish the principle of intellectual and cultural freedom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDUCATORS DEFEND BERTRAND RUSSELL | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...Ethel Turp Call on the President (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This appealing little picture, which aims to affirm the democratic dogma, implies some things its creators never intended. One of them is that to call on the President is one of the last things a U. S. Turp ever would or should think of doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 22, 1940 | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...committee said that it will continue to circulate the petition over the week-end. "In signing this petition," the appeal reads, "we do not signify our approval of Mr. Browder's point of view, but affirm the right of Harvard students to hear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Petition Asking Permission For Browder to Speak Gains | 11/11/1939 | See Source »

...were forced to open a small date bureau, never dreaming in the world that the idea would ever take hold, but about the second night we fixed up nearly half of the Business School with dates for their Columbus Day dance," she boasted. Miss Slote was very careful to affirm that the date bureau would be abandoned as soon as the 'Group' made some noticeable impression on Harvard boys, and that it was not an end in itself but merely the means...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Girls Form Novel Club And Date Bureau | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

...proclaim to a world which is once again madly preparing for war that the gospel of God as revealed in Jesus Christ . . . leaves us with no other choice but to refuse to sanction or participate in war. . . . We affirm our faith that the mission of the church today is to witness with singleness of heart, at whatever cost, to the power of good to overcome evil, of love to conquer hatred, of the Cross to shatter the sword...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 100 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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