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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...however, the Bulldogs began to smart. With the opening of the fourth period they commenced an inexorable drive that drove the determined, but tiring Yardlings ever backward. From the 46 yard line Brad Quackenbush, who had played an excellent supporting game at left half, broke loose to put his teammates behind by one point...
...artillery that precedes each election, Cambridge voters are liable to enter the polls this November with ringing ears and empty heads. The battle for six seats on Cambridge's School Committee seems in danger of being deflected along religious and partisan lines; while the true issue, the City's backward school system, remains skillfully camouflaged. With mournful cries of political domination by a clique of "Tory Rowers," certain bureaucrats hope to divert attention from their incompetence and, by injecting bigotry in the place of analysis, securely fasten themselves to the gravy train. But no amount of rabid oration or pretended...
...small, backward countries of eastern and southern Europe, the Communists needed only to discredit, jail or kill a few men to silence all opposition. Thus, in Yugoslavia, the Communist dictatorship silenced opposition by first discrediting, then executing General Draja Mihailovich. In Hungary, they jailed the Secretary General of the majority Smallholders Party, Bela Kovacs (reported dead last week), and forced Prime Minister Ferenc Nagy into exile. In Rumania, they jailed Juliu Maniu, 74-year-old leader of the liberal Peasant Party. In Poland, Peasant Party Leader Stanislaw Mikolajczyk is expected to be in jail by Christmas (TIME, Sept...
...deal to develop Liberia by stimulating trade was a mixture of free-trading idealism and hardheaded business. With an eye on all the backward countries of the world, Stettinius said: "With our technique and know-how, it just isn't necessary for them to live poorly. I would not, personally, be doing this on a purely commercial basis...
...strength of a quick look backward to previous tussles with this recurring crisis of the Forties, the Student Council might well undertake a two-fold program. The first and most crucial aspect would entail revitalizing its Relief Committee. Here the emphasis must fall upon providing a sense of personal student participation in aiding the shipment of food and other supplies to specific parties abroad. For the second phase of its program the Council should seriously consider a plan for stopping general food waste in the dining halls. While this is an impersonal method, the results will fit neatly into...