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...excitable Boston press announced the Hicks appointment with screaming headlines, horrified patriots saw Harvard's gleaming crimson turning dirty red. In annual session at the Bradford Hotel, 20 ancients of the Grand Army of the Republic rose to their shaking feet, quavered a unanimous protest. In the State Legislature, a committee investigating subversive activities was given another month's lease on life, and Representative Francis X. Coyne introduced a bill to remove the tax exemption of any educational institution employing a known Communist or Fascist...
Leader of the anti-R. O. T. C. group was Mrs. Mary Davison Bradford, 82, daughter of a Wisconsin pioneer and onetime superintendent of Kenosha's schools. Mrs. Bradford has written a salty, widely-read autobiography,* is equally famed in Kenosha for her knitting. Clicking her knitting needles faster & faster, Mrs. Bradford marshaled her troops. When Legionnaires got 275 high-school students to sign a petition asking for R. O. T. C., Mrs. Bradford's group got a larger number to petition the Board of Education for a course in hog-calling. One day, to the astonishment...
Last week Kenosha's voters went to the polls, figuratively carrying Mrs. Bradford on their shoulders, swamped...
...Memoirs of Mary D. Bradford...
Edward Hickling Bradford fellowship to Francis S. Cheever, '32 Boston; John White Browne scholarship to Smith O. Dexter, Jr., '29, Cambridge; William O. Moseley Jr., Travelling Fellowships to Dale G. Friend, Boston; Rolf Lium, Boston; and John B. Dynes, Boston...