Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With 140 per cent of its quota already collected, the Harvard Community Fund Campaign will continue its drive until Thursday following the example of the Greater Boston Fund...
...Harvard campaign headquarters at Wadsworth House announced that the campaign in the University is way ahead of schedule and progressing nicely despite the apparent lag of contributions to the Greater Boston Fund which has necessitated an extension of the drive...
...faculty have been asked to join in the drive and a comparatively few faculty members have contributed $25,000 to date...
Once again the hue and cry has arisen, and head-lines of a new "red" drive splash across the nation. The latest variant is the American Federation of Labor's threat to drive from home its child organization, the Teachers' Federation, unless the latter "cleans house" and ousts local "communist-controlled" units. Even the most cursory examination discloses the fact that this outburst is in the nature of a red herring, and that, in all likelihood, no one concerned will take any positive action...
...threatened drive is best explained as a sympathetic vibration from a bitter controversy which has long ranged within New York labor circles. There, in an atmosphere much beclouded--perhaps almost completely conditioned--by personal and political factors, several local teachers' unions have been unceasingly persecuted by a few other teachers, a good many rival labor leaders, and the Hearst press en masse. Because of a personal connection between the New York embroilment and the A. F. of L. Committee on Education, which is responsible for the "red" scare, it is easy to conjecture the latter as a deliberate maneuver...