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...Boston Globs of yesterday appeared the following news item: A group of 50 students and alumni gathered in Emerson Hall Harvard Yard yesterday afternoon protest the award of an honorary degree tomorrow at the Harvard Commend cement to Lord Halifax, British Ambassador to the United States. The meeting was sponsored by Profession Frederick Merk, Francis O, Matthiessen, and Wendell, Furry of the Harvard Faculty, and Raymond Dennett graduate secretary of P.B.H...
...consistent reader of TIME who firmly believes and adheres to democratic principles, I wish to commend your magazine for its impartial point of view in discussing controversial issues involving social, political, and economic questions...
...after the Malaya put in, Frank Knox issued a statement: "I wish to commend the action of the press associations, newspapers, broadcasting companies and photographic agencies who have cooperated. . . . It is true that many people can see these ships as they arrive. ... It is also true that enemy agents can report these movements; but it seems to me only sportsmanlike that the keen American press refrain from giving a report of these ships for it the benefit of press's Britain's enemies. ...." As it was, the press's self-censorship merely concealed from the U.S. public...
...words: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." "This day shall thou be with Me in Paradise." "Behold Thy Mother. Behold Thy Son." "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" "I thirst." "It is finished." "Father, into Thy hands I commend My Spirit...
...argued: "The air-raid wardens and police will take cover during air raids and their steel helmets will not be needed anyway. So how can I be accused of treason or sabotage? By using iron, I was actually saving steel for other armaments. The Egyptian State really ought to commend my patriotic...