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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only applauding the Empire State executive; it was also following a tradition as hoary as old ivy and the Charles Regatta. Without slighting Mr. Dewey, it may be said that the College would probably have voted just as happily for any other G.O.P. candidate, whether living or dead. It has always been thus. Since the days of the first President, Harvard, supposed den of political pinks, has consistently lined up on the conservative side, the side of the Federalists, the Whigs, and currently the Republicans...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: College--G.O.P. Marriage Is Still Going Strong | 10/30/1948 | See Source »

...their forces in the interior across an east-west road running under Jewish guns. The Jews, in turn, would have six hours each morning to supply their settlements in the Negeb across a north-south road blocked by Arab troops. When the Egyptians rejected the ruling, it became a dead letter. Since then, the Jews have supplied their settlements by night airlifts to secret landing strips in the desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Provocation in the Desert | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...book by George Abbott; music & lyrics by Frank Loesser; produced by Cy Feuer & Ernest H. Martin in association with Gwen Rickard) sets to music that old piece of nonsense with nine lives, Charley's Aunt. The result is not happy, less because the 55-year-old farce is dead than because the new procedure is deadening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Oct. 25, 1948 | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

Russia is dead set on expansion, the President said, but when she sees that no additional countries are willing to adopt Communism, she will begin negotiating with the western nations in a more reasonable fashion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Urges 'Get Tough' Russian Policy at Forum | 10/21/1948 | See Source »

...proposal to build a tablet in Memorial Church next to the names of Harvard's World War I dead now must go to the executive board of the Associated Harvard Clubs, which is scheduled to meet tomorrow to consider the plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heads of Alumni Association Okay Selection of Plaque as University's War Memorial | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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