Word: faneuil
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Boston: A cold wind needled down from the north, dispelling the fog....Power-plant guards were doubled, as they were at factories, shipyards, reservoirs. Air-raid warden posts manned 24 hours a day. All recruiting stations jammed....Governor Saltonstall and Mayor Tobin spoke at a mass preparedness meeting at Faneuil Hall-and when they finished were greeted by the report that enemy planes had been sighted 200 miles from the city....Bellboys on the roof of the Hotel Statler dumped buckets of paint over the arrow on its roof pointing to the airport. Workers at the Navy Yard were released...
...flowering of that culture. Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Thoreau had been its contributors ; it had had one of the first women editors in U.S. journalism; had introduced the first women's page, the first church page. Above all it had become as inseparably part of New England traditions as Faneuil Hall or the Tea Party...
Italo-Americans of the Boston area will have a chance to discuss their stand in relation to the war at 7.30 o'clock tomorrow night when the Massachusetts branch of the Mazzini Society holds a mass meeting in Faneuil Hall...
Revolutionary days will come back to Harvard Square tomorrow night when two positions of costumed Harvard and Radcliffe students, sparked by liveried, bewigged footmen, will set out for a Faneuil Hall meeting, sponsored by the Council for Democracy. The meeting is scheduled for 7:45 o'clock and will be broadcast by the Colonial Network...
...18th century atmosphere will recall the formation in 1772 of the first Committee of Correspondence, also in Faneuil Hall, to bring together all revolutionary elements in the separate colonies...