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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colors of the club have been changed to silver and red, and the club now calls itself the "Bat Club" in order to avoid name mix-up difficulties with the Phoenix Club...
...President Seymour of Yale has also opposed "witch-hunts." Instead of "witch-hunts," Yale accepted secret reports, FBI interference, and their consequence--fear. Thus, to avoid suspicion that anything of that nature will take place at Harvard, President Conant must go beyond opposition to "witch-hunts." He must state categorically what criteria will and what criteria will not be used for keeping Communists off the faculty. He must do all this first, because until he does, there will be room for doubt within the Harvard academic community. Second and most important, he must do this to re-establish Harvard...
Nebraska became the first state to abolish rent ceilings under the new federal rent-control law. The one-house legislature last week passed the law over the veto of Governor Val Peterson, who was against rent control too, but wanted it to last until April i, 1950 to avoid the hardship of rent boosts and evictions during the rugged Nebraska winter. The new law left landlords free to charge whatever rents they please after Nov. i for the 91,000 houses and apartments in Nebraska that are now under federal controls...
Everybody's Happy. Most of Amerika's clear, simple stories are told in terms of "average Americans," avoid controversial personalities and political issues that might roil the Kremlin-or Congress. Not long after Amerika had stirred up such a storm on Capitol Hill by suggesting that the Midwest was poor and drought-stricken, slim, brunette Editor Marion Sanders, 43, took over. Since then, Amerika has provoked no senatorial tempers. Welles-ley-educated Mrs. Sanders is a doctor's wife and mother of two college-age youngsters. She knows no Russian and has never visited the U.S.S.R.; Moscow...
...resumed her maiden name recently (with the prefix Mrs.) "to avoid confusion" with Wa-laceite. Ted, now editor of the new Manhattan tabloid, Daily Compass...