Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Part of the Harvard University Band will back up Sylvia Sydney, current Cambridge Summer Theatre star, as she leads a rally sponsored by the Cambridge Women's War Savings Committee, in the Square today from noon to 1 o'clock. The rally will launch Cambridge's first war bond and stamp drive...
...would say to himself, over and over again, 'My country, my country, my country.' " He profoundly respected arrogant, disloyal Charles Lee. He liked to think of the Continental Congress "as an august Senate, such as had sat in ancient Rome." He knew "there was no real bond between himself and the rabble of Yankees, backwoods Southerners, and foreign revolutionaries he led; yet there was a drive and a force, and an ache in his heart for something unseen yet tremendously powerful and forthright...
What of Enforced Savings? The committee, although it adopted a withholding tax, did not touch the question of compulsory savings, on the plea of Treasury Secretary Morgenthau that the voluntary sale of war bonds should be given a full and fair trial. Latest reports were that the country was some $150 million below the $800 million war bond quota for June. The Treasury, however, felt certain that, with increased pressure, the $1 billion quota for July and succeeding months would be reached. But proponents of enforced savings argued that even the sale of $6 billion in war bonds...
Founded in the months before Pearl Harbor as the Defense Service Committee, the WSC was recently revamped and enlarged to cope with the civilian problems of Harvard at war. Under the leadership of Chairman Adam Yarmolinsky '43, the Committee has been organized into five divisions: blood donors, bond and stamp salesmen, social service committee, a group to handle the recruiting of volunteers, and a committee on publicity and speakers...
...question calling for work on the WSC drives has the response been unsatisfactory to the Committee. The recruiting of volunteers is important to all of the group's work and they feel that "it is just as important for students to help our committee in recruiting for blood donors, bond buyers, and other services as it is for them to make those contributions themselves. There is no limit to the work the Committee can do providing we have the volunteers. In this war not only the soldier but the civilian must make the fullest contribution to eventual victory...