Word: cantors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jamming Sanders Theatre to its capacity, 1250 Harvard and Radcliffe students and various townspeople turned out last night to hear Eddie Cantor, Dorothy Thompson, and Leverett Saltonstall '14 speak on the refugee problem. Unfortunately, Dorothy Thompson's sole contribution was a telegram briefly announcing that she was unable to appear due to illness...
...Cantor Speaks...
After Green had read some telegrams, and committee head Robert E. Lane '39 had spoken a few words on how Harvard Indifference had been broken down, the featured speaker, movie star Cantor appeared. He was alternately intensely serious and extremely humorous...
After promising the Committee $1000, Cantor gave his plan of raising the necessary money, which was to have every one of the 900 students present give $10 and write to whoever might receive the same amount in a Christmas gift where the money was going...
Interviewed after the meeting, Eddie Cantor said that the possibility of Jewish resettlement in Canada, Africa, and other proposed places is certainly an important consideration. "If this plan is not considered, then the churches might as well fold up, for they are preaching the solution of all problems...