Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...battle, fought periodically ever since the law was enacted under the Curley regime, opposing forces led chiefly by educators and labor leaders, are not confident of victory. Led by President Conant and prominent members of the faculties of Harvard and almost every college in the State, the drive was checked by the veto of Governor Hurley last year...
...been drinking. Mrs. Greene offered him her purse and the car if he would just let her out. "That's not what I want," was his reply. With the pistol held to the back of her head, he ordered her to keep her eyes to the front and drive where he directed...
...directed her to a side street and made her drive into a grove back of the high school. There he told her to stop the car which she did. As he was climbing from the back seat over into the front she opened the door and tried to escape. She screamed frantically and he grabbed her by the throat and choked her. . . . Evidently the Negro thought her screams had been heard. He turned her loose and jumped out of the car. She got back into the car and locked all four doors. When she started her motor he jumped...
Regrettable is the fact that the Boston Community Fund Committee used the words "Harvard University, students, staff, and employees" in informing local papers the amount of money received from men with Harvard connections. The six thousand dollars donated the drive from here was given entirely unofficially. It is apparent that the Fund Committee attempted to use Harvard's name for an un Harvard purpose. Many Overseers may be Boston business men, but Harvard students come from all over the country, and Harvard itself is in Cambridge...
...which the money has been collected from the employees and staff; but this is not the question in point. The fact is that most of the sum has come from the Faculty. Although a large number of Faculty members live in Cambridge and although by contributing to the drive they aid Boston charities which will benefit Cambridge, yet it would seem that they have more intimate connections with the University. The Faculty might divert part of the six thousand dollars from the Fund to the aid of students on "border-line" scholarships, students who are forced to spend too much...