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Word: billing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here are a couple of the blessings Mr. Toomey's bill could provide, if passed: No one could advocate any peaceable change in either the state or federal constitutions without losing his right to vote and hold office. If a future legislature felt in a particularly conservative mood, it could pass a law under this amendment preventing anybody to the left of--Mr. Toomey, for example--from voting or holding office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hysteria Plus | 4/16/1949 | See Source »

...bill is, of course, directed at the Communist Party. The members of the legislature on the Constitutional Law Committee heard an ex-Dies Committee investigator, J. B. Matthews, testify last week that the best way "to beat the Reds" is to drive them underground. Unfortunately, the legislators who agreed with Matthews haven't stopped with that fallacy alone; from their questioning of witnesses who opposed the bill, they seemed to think that the term "subversive" ought to have a much wider application. "Subversive," as interpreted by some of these public servants, might easily include non-Communists who are suspiciously unorthodox...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hysteria Plus | 4/16/1949 | See Source »

...part of the Buildings and Grounds department most mysterious to the average Harvard man is probably the carpentry division. When a broken chair or table mysteriously disappears, to be seen again only as an item on a term bill, it may very well have been carted to the extensive wood-working shops below Dunster House on Memorial Drive. Also in this building are a tinsmith's shop, a key shop, a metal-working shop, and an upholstery shop. A staff of roofers (now almost exclusively employed waterproofing Widener), electricians, and plumbers complete the repair crew of Buildings and Grounds...

Author: By Peter K. Solmssen, | Title: In the Sky . . . On the Land . . . . . . and in Your Bed | 4/16/1949 | See Source »

...varsity team will include Bill Rickenbacker, Herb Mee, Bob Matson, Dick O'Keefe, Jack Denton, Sam Seager, and Crawford Hubbell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ruggers Meet McGill Today; Golfers play Green | 4/16/1949 | See Source »

...following are the top three midfields: Paul Birdsall, Boog Davidson, and Dick Post who start today; Bob Lange, Will Kegg, and Bill Graham, with Dunc Mauran filling in; Wilbur Davis, Ed Thayer, and Dave Waring...

Author: By John R. W. smail, | Title: Stickmen Out for Revenge On Veterans Here Today | 4/16/1949 | See Source »

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