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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called "heathen peoples." Last year the Bible House supplied American missionaries with Bibles in 117 new languages. Recipients of the organization's largesse listed in the annual Librarian's report include both the Chinese Mission of New England, as well as the Norfolk Prison Colony of the Commonwealth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 11/29/1947 | See Source »

...deceptively simple to poke fun at Barnes' announcement. Any man who piously asserts his "considered opinion" to be that the "re-establishment of the Comintern . . . and its increased efforts within this country have created a situation fraught with danger to the Commonwealth" is making himself a broad target for board witticisms. But to laugh off Barnes' who successfully sponsored a highly restrictive labor bill last fall, is to ignore a man capable of exerting considerable influence to ends that actually are fraught with danger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Red Barnes | 11/8/1947 | See Source »

...both the College and the Commonwealth found themselves in straitened financial circumstances, no attempt was made to build a new edifice on the site until the General Court authorized a state-wide lottery in 1794 to raise money for the building. Started in 1804, the new Stoughton Hall was completed a year later, and officially named in 1806. It watched the years flow by gracefully, housing Edward Everett 1811, and Oliver Wendell Holmes 1829, until the night of December 15, 1870, when its prim, Puritan peace was disturbed by the explosion of a bomb under the floor of Room...

Author: By S. W. G., | Title: Circling the Square | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

Acting as chief justice of the Bench for tonight's finals in the "Court of Appeals of the Commonwealth of Ames" will be Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Douglas to Judge Law Competition Tribunal Tonight | 10/30/1947 | See Source »

...tell you that there is no country in Europe which makes a firmer or more solid front against Soviet and Communist encroachment than Great Britain. There is no doubt whatever that the Government, and the overwhelming mass of the British people, at home and throughout our Commonwealth, if any great issue should arise affecting human freedom, would act with the United States in the same solidarity and fraternal intimacy which has so lately given us victory against the combined dictatorships of Germany, Italy and Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Prognosis | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

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