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...Society has just sort of gone defunct," George P. Canellos '56, its elected treasurer, said last night...
...Spanish Communist campaigns were financed by Moscow. Sixty percent of the gold of the Spanish Republican government, he said, was whisked away to Moscow during the civil war, and more than $4,000,000 was later sent back to Paris, part of which went to set up the now defunct Communist daily, Ce Soir...
...issue yesterday reference is made to may "refusing permission," in 1939, "to the now defunct John Reed Society to sponsor a lecture by Earl Browder in New Lecture Hall." The decision in that case, confirmed by the Corporation, had nothing to do with Browder's opinions. It was based solely on the fact that he had just been indicted for a crime and that his trial was pending. The question was, in fact, one of propriety or "taste" in giving a man whose trial was pending a chance to use Harvard as a sounding board to plead his cause. Under...
...publisher, fell heir to a third of the $35 million estate* left by her eccentric grandmother, Anita McCormick Elaine, International Harvester heiress, benefactress to the University of Chicago, Foundation for World Government and latter-day angel to such causes as the late Progressive Party and Manhattan's defunct pinko Daily Compass...
Early in November of 1939, Jerome D. Greene, Secretary of the Corporation, touched off the issue by refusing permission to the now defunct John Reed Society to sponsor a lecture by Earl Browder in New Lecture Hall...