Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under that sky, political lineups went by the board. The battle lines were drawn around a confused, mishandled, four-year-old Neutrality Act. To Washington the President summoned the Congress to meet on September 21 in special session. He prepared to ask them to repeal the major section of that act-the provision compelling him to declare absolute embargoes on the sale and shipment of arms and munitions to all countries...
...note was first sounded by Willard Learoyd Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School and Chairman of the Board of Preachers, when he said, "We are living in one of the overcast days of the world...
...Harvard students are known to have been on board the Athenia when it was sunk, although one undergraduate cancelled his passage at the last minute...
...young Iron Guardists were led to the spot where the 46-year-old Premier fell from the running board of his car, his body riddled with bullets, and compelled to participate in a macabre reconstruction of the assassination while thousands of persons looked on. Then, when the re-enaction of the crime had been completed, the six men were lined up and shot by a firing squad, which marched off leaving the bodies sprawled in pools of blood. An official invitation had been issued to the public to witness the re-enacting of the crime and the executions, which occurred...
...will be welcomed tonight by President Conant at a reception at the Union at 7:30 o'clock. Other speakers will be Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress; the Reverend Willard L. Sperry, chairman of the Board of Preachers; and Richard M. Gummere, chairman of the Committee on Admission. The reception will be preceded by a buffet supper in the Union at 6:30 o'clock...