Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...money selling children's swings, and later electric drills, to start himself out at the University of Washington. He had become a serious young man, a reader of H. L. Mencken's green-covered American Mercury-not a radical, merely an earnest explorer of panaceas for the common man. Then father's health began to fail...
...Browder, let out of jail by Franklin Roosevelt, got his old job back and picked up the next line from Moscow. Hitler had marched on Russia. The new and urgent line was to make peace with the capitalist U.S., piously preach collaboration of all "democratic" forces against their common fascist enemy. Roosevelt, who had been denounced as a "dirty warmonger," was a hero again at 35 East Twelfth Street...
Arguing with a traveling Brown team in the Eliot Junior Common Room, the Crimson's Arthur W. Purcell '50 and Peter H. Clayton '50 lost the first debate for the Council in eight meetings...
Baritone Paul Tibbetts '45 will give a free concert in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow night. A former president of the Glee Club, Tibbetts has appeared as soloist in many concerts with Harvard groups...
Tomorrow the Council competes with Brown in an Ivy League debate on the question: "Resolved, That the Communist Party should be outlawed. Arthur W. Purcell '50 and Peter H. Clayton '50 will take the affirmative at 8:30 p.m. in the Eliot Junior Common Room...