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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...denies that Butler is a fast-moving, hard-working chairman (he has had just three days of vacation this year), but his enemies say he works hardest at offending the party's bigwigs with his acidly articulate speeches against the Democratic leaders of Congress, Southern segregationists-any target of opportunity. "There is no question that there's a sit-down on money," says one party wheel horse. "All the other money raisers are cool toward Butler or actually dislike him." In his threatening notice last week, Butler did nothing to appease them. As they well know, some adamantly...
...Zagat's proposals accepted at the meeting are encouragement of: research on an annual theme by delegates and students; informal discussion, forums and official action by student councils; participation in these discussions by student political clubs and groups; attendance by guests other than students at the Regional and National Congresses; and use of the Region to carry the theme issue to the National Congress and to serve as an information source at the Congress...
...addition to accepting Project Awareness, the Regional Congress, held at Dartmouth last weekend, "discussed informally" the Harvard-initiated proposals to encourage a written debate on the theme topic in student newspapers of member colleges, and to submit to a general student referendum on each campus the resolutions of the Region's spring Plenary meeting...
According to Zagat, the chances are quite favorable that the Region will accept the debate and referendum plans at its spring meeting, and that New England will send to the August National Student Congress in Minnesota delegates backed by both informed and openly expressed student opinion on NDEA...
...Regional Congress chose Federal aid to education and the problem of disclaimer affidavits in the NDEA as theme issue over four other suggested topics...