Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...civil service rule, prohibiting any inquiry into the political beliefs of an applicant for a federal job. It was a wise and liberal provision in days when the radical fringe consisted of nothing more horrendous than the Greenback National and Prohibition parties. It remained valid during the rise & fall of the Populist, Progressive, Bull Moose and Socialist-Labor movements. Their adherents were loyal to the U.S. first, to their party second-and never to a foreign government. Not until 1939 was the rule amended, to bar those who seek to overthrow the U.S. Government...
Karl von Clausewitz had said, "Public opinion is won through great victories and the occupation of the enemy's capital." The fall of Yenan was no great victory, but it would have a marked effect on Chinese opinion, strengthen confidence in Chiang's ultimate victory...
...decade Yenan's loess caves had generated the trained personnel and the gospel of Red China. Young Communists of other Asiatic lands (including Sanzo Nozaka, brains of the Japanese party) had sheltered and studied there. In remote corners of Asia, the faithful would hear of the fall of Yenan with something of the inner shock that word of the fall of Mecca might bring to the Moslem world...
...Glee Club docket shows an eight day schedule, which begins the week's festivities tomorrow with a performance at Fall River. From there, the group will work its way to Washington for a performance in the Presidential Ballroom of the Hotel Statler...
Organized last fall by Thomas B. Dunn 1G for the purpose of singing Bach Cautatas, the choir consists of 25 University and Radcliffe students. The orchestra, which was formed earlier in the term by the Music Club, approximates the string orchestra of Bach's time...