Word: charlestown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year the news candidates were organized into the Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Club and swept into the glare of publicity when they opposed the NSL peace platform on Widener steps. Later they had prominent parts to play in the demonstration against the Nazi cruiser, Karlsruhe, in City Square, Charlestown. They had to examine the possibilities of incipent riots which often brewed on Cambridge Streets but never quite reached the proportions of the famous demonstration several years ago. Of course, some rather routine and rather difficult assignments face the Freshman news candidate at any time but the spring possesses possibilities...
...perfecting of his flexible models." But Dr. Moore is only 31, spends his days teaching at Harvard Medical School, researching in neuropsychiatry at the Boston City and Boston Psychopathic Hospitals, carrying on private practice, fathering two sons. A semiprofessional swimmer, he competes annually in the twelve-mile race from Charlestown to Boston Light. During the past two years he has been collecting and editing studies on the problems of syphilis of the nervous system...
...seem to fear that such action by university professors may be excessively "difficult" and "dangerous." I can assure you from my own experience that such fears are exaggerated. I refer you to the case of the Charlestown rioters, so-called, recently before the courts of this state. Commenting on that case in an editorial which you published on May 18th last, you said: "Any nation espousing a belief in freedom of speech will not submit to a subjugation of it under the tattoo of horses' hoofs. The brutality and officiousness demonstrated yesterday are to be deplored...
...that time. The kind of action which I think university professors may properly take under such circumstances is illustrated by the "Introduction" signed by Professors Hocking and Perry of the Department of Philosophy, and by myself, to the "Official Report of the Committee of Investigation of Police Tactics in Charlestown on May 17, 1934," published in June by the Harvard Liberal Club. I commend to you the reading of that report in full, together with the accompanying documents. Arthur N. Holcombe...
...company unionism." Caught flatfooted, NRAdministrator Johnson's Johnsonese for once failed him. Merely snorting "Ridiculous!" to the Darrow charges, he set Counsel Donald Richberg to writing the organization's counterbarrage. Meantime, an eloquent defense came from a high and unexpected quarter. To an NRA birthday celebration at Charlestown, W. Va., President Roosevelt, who usually lets the Blue Eagle fight its own battles, sent this message: "People who cannot see the forests for the trees make much of controversy in various groups which meet in NRA-employers, consumers, employes. NRA was deliberately conceived in controversy. . . . Before the people...