Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortunately, facts will not bear out this saga of declining freedom at Harvard. Not a university law but an unwritten custom prevented the Young Communist League from distributing its message from door to door. Any other group, whether left or right, harmless or vicious, would have met with the same refusal. But the mere fact that an "unwritten law" should crack down particularly on the more politically minded members of the university gives it an unsavory aura. No matter what the origin of this law, no matter what the original purpose, its present function is dangerous. It has almost become...
...such suppression need not exist. The material, and not the "legality" of the organization, should be the criterion. Whenever a college group has something worthwhile to say, it should bring its pamphlet to a University committee aimed not at shielding undergraduate minds but at keeping advertising material from front door mats. Only then will a sincerely written Communist message receive as much freedom as the Lowell House Chronicle, and only then will rumor of a Red drive at Harvard go down for an irrevocable count...
...temperate Christian delegates heard President Ida B. Wise Smith proclaim that "there is no doubt prohibition will return-the only question is when." The W.C.T.U. wants prohibition or nothing. Says Mrs. Ella Boole, world president of W.C.T.U.: "Moderation points the way to excessive indulgence. Total abstinence closes the door. We have always been opposed to moderation...
Studebaker's low-priced Champion, Commander and President ($660 to $1,095) have lost almost all exterior fixtures except close-fitting door handles. Trim and neat, the 1940s have new hood locks, optional overdrive...
...room No. 1037 on the south side of a massive, red-brick building in St. Paul last week charwomen were dusting and cleaning and bustling about. On the north side of the ugly old office building, in No. 1030 (separated by no more than a locked door and a corridor from 1037), more charwomen were kicking the dust and dirt around. No. 1037 had been vacant since Jan. 24 for lack of a president of the Great Northern Railway. No. 1030 had been vacant since Sept. 4 for lack of a president of Northern Pacific. This week both rooms were...