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...Washington, the Maine State Society ordered 500 choice Maine lobsters, gallons of clam chowder and other native delicacies for their annual dinner, invited House Speaker Joe Martin to come along and show how a man from Massachusetts tackles a well-turned lobster claw...
...other left-wing groups urged students to cut their eleven o'clock classes on April 13, 1934, and attend a mammoth anti-war meeting on the steps of Widener Library. But on the same day, the editors of the conservative CRIMSON called an extraordinary meeting of the Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Society of Upper Plympton Street for the same time and place. Warned of the coming battle between the Communists and the Mullins men, the entire student body of 3,000 poured into the Yard...
...Washington, Nixon banded together with a few other freshmen Congressmen to exchange information on what was going on in their various committees and in Congress as a whole. They soon had 15 members, christened themselves "The Chowder and Marching Club," and met informally (there was usually a bottle of whisky but no chowder on the table; Nixon himself rarely takes a drink). By being well informed and determined, the group became a force in the House. Says one charter member: "Fifteen guys can do a lot with members who know little about a given bill...
...started a go-get-'em campaign to sign up industrialists, educators, bankers and businessmen, and the membership soared. Few ties still exist with the British organization. (British Newcomeners, who number less than 500, all serious technical men, look somewhat askance at the U.S. operation as a mere marching & chowder club...
...Pioneers! In Berkeley, Calif., the Elves', Gnomes' & Little Men's Science Fiction Chowder & Marching Society sent a letter to the United Nations legal department, claimed mining rights on 2,250 sq. mi. of the moon...