Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tuesday's CRIMSON mentioned the Peace Strike to be held April 12 and the Armastice (sic) Day Anti-War Conference Continuations Committee, which is directing the strike in colleges of this region. To avoid possible misunderstanding, I wish to name the organizations which issued the call for the nation-wide strike and also the groups which have delegates on the Continuations Committee. The national sponsors are: American Youth Congress, National Council of Methodist Youth, Inter-Seminary Movement (Middle Atlantic Division), Student League for Industrial Democracy, and National Student League. The committee consists of representatives of the following: Young People...
...Were astounded at a slip of the tongue by social-climbing Dominions Secretary James Henry ("Jim") Thomas. That onetime engine greaser seemed to imply that His Majesty's Government plan to avoid the general election constitutionally due by November 1936, at the latest, by declaring the Empire in a "state of emergency" under which the National Government could rule for three years more...
...said guilty Captain Sawbridge. He was then retired from the Navy, on half pay. Next day the long line of' gold cuffs and epaulets proceeded to try Captain Tower. Though the Hood under Captain Tower had apparently made no move to avoid the collision. Captain Tower's sword came back to him hilt first...
...noon 20 men looking extraordinarily fat and bloated met at a Stadium Street restaurant in Athens for lunch. They had secret instructions from the island of Crete where M. Venizelos has been hiding to avoid assassination, his villa guarded night & day by Republican youths with machine guns. Immediately after lunch the 20 bloated men in Athens stripped off their baggy civilian clothes, revealed themselves completely dressed in naval uniform. Tearing through the streets in motor cars, they rushed to the Salamis naval arsenal. A high ranking officer shot the sentry dead. Five warships including the two finest in the Greek...
...committee carefully stated, in an article written by Joseph D. Golden '37, one of its members, that "the spirit of this group will be one of intelligent and rational cooperation with the University toward a common goal, and will earnestly avoid any antagonistic attitude toward the College authorities...