Word: beacon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...individual liberalism within his state. The conflict with President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin destroys what favorable connotations the label "progressive" may still have in the minds of balanced thinkers. Fragmentary reports indicate the resemblance of this clash to some of Governor Curley's ridiculous excesses on Beacon Hill. Dominated by LaFollette appointees, the Board of Regents has been summoned to dismiss President Frank. The Governor and his adherents, it is said are worried about radicalism at the University. A five man investigating committee has suggested that Frank drive from the campus all "individuals and societies...
...back at No. 10 Downing Street to shake up the British Cabinet before it again faced the House of Commons. Mr. Leslie Hore-Belisha, the smart, young Jewish Liberal who seems never to take a vacation but fills British newspapers all summer with personal publicity about his "Belisha Beacon" and other traffic gadgets (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934), was rewarded by promotion of his Ministry of Transport from sub-Cabinet to full Cabinet status. Minister of Agriculture, Walter Elliott, the tall, taciturn, sagacious Scot who has long been considered one of the Conservative Party's ablest younger men, was shelved...
...parade will start on Marlborough Street and proceed up to Beacon Hill. The marchers will then pass the State House, which they hope to occupy on January 3 and thereafter, and then will proceed on out to the Boston Garden for the final Victory rally of the party. At this meeting John D. M. Hamilton, chairman of the National Committee, will make the principal address, and three will also be talks by Henry Cabot Lodge '24, candidate for U. S. Senator, John W. Haigis, candidate for Governor, and other aspirants for state and local offices...
...Harvard Landon-Knox Club and all Republicans from Harvard are due to meet at Fairfield and Marlborough Streets. The parade, complete with torchlights, red fire, and other paraphernalia furnished by the Committee, will wind its way up Beacon Hill, past the State House, and eventually end at the Boston Garden. Here John D. M. Hamilton, chairman of the National Committee, will address the final Victory Rally of the party, at which over 18,000 people are expected. Also scheduled to speak are the candidates for state office, Henry Cabot Lodge '24, John W. Haigis, and others...
Simultaneously last week in Boston and in Philadelphia batons flicked into the air, releasing the music that marked the overture to the 1936-37 season. In Boston, Beacon Hillers, not content merely to clap their gloved hands, stood in deference to Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky who gravely bowed his thanks, peaked the afternoon with a peerless performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...