Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which the U. S. is neutral, veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, organized in January 1937 to fight for Loyalist Spain. The brigade mustered altogether 4,000 U. S. citizens. Last September the Spanish Leftist Government disbanded it. Those who filed last week from the third-class gangplank of the Cunarder Ausonia to a Manhattan dock had left behind some 2,000 killed and missing, 250 captured at Belchite, Brunete, many another battleground. (Others are still in Spain or convalescing in France, and 870 veterans had already returned...
Born at Bristol, Va., of a Vermont father and a French Canadian mother, Pinky Harrington graduated second in the class of 1909 at West Point, has since proved himself an able engineer and administrator. Outside his office, he is an ornament of social Washington. Inside his office hangs a quotation from George Washington: "Do not suffer your good nature, when application is made, to say yes when you ought...
...workers brought on for the occasion from 26 States. One & all declared that WPA wages are too low to keep body & soul together, that they would leave Relief like a shot if they could get private jobs. They also attested that whether or not Reliefers are becoming a permanent class in the U. S., they are certainly becoming a caste apart-shunned as poor credit risks by insurance companies, doctors, landlords...
However "Copey," as he was affectionately known to a generation of students, will read at President Conant's Christmas Eve Party, and students of the Class of '42, keenly disappointed at the break in this tradition, are in hopes that he will come later in the year to the Union to deliver a reading from the Bible...
Copeland, Kittredge, Lake and now Lowest. They are names that every schoolboy knows, men who were only yesterday seen in the Yard, men with little green bags and little eccentricities of dress and speech, men whom undergraduates knew as men, but to the class that enters in the fall, and for many years to come, they will just be "authorities" with which to pad a bibliography. Their books can be brought in Boston or Bombay; they themselves are no longer the unique offering of Harvard...