Word: fights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the obvious attraction of Furcolo's proposal for Boston members of the legislature, Powers bitterly attacked the sales tax idea, and threw his 28 years of political savvy into the fight. It was not passed. And when the Governor tried several times to revive his proposal, Powers' opposition and the natural reluctance of other congressmen to impose new taxes killed...
Outlining further the "tactical reasons" for both accepting and rejecting NDEA money, the report concludes that Harvard "is pre-eminently qualified to lead the fight" against the loyalty provisions and that it should decline funds under the Act until the affidavit is repealed...
...were two young idealists, helpers in Fidel Castro's drive to power in Cuba, willing to risk prison and death to fight their old comrade-at-arms? See THE HEMISPHERE, No Time for Tourists...
...York TV show last week. But he carefully leaves a door ajar, and he has told friends that if the Democratic convention should draft him for the nomination he would not refuse. No one who talks to Stevenson doubts that he will stay clear of the fight; his old bruises from the rough and tumble 1956 state primaries still pain him. But granted the purest of motives, he has chosen the wisest possible course for a two-time loser who might make a third...
...want to see students made even more cautious by such reminders of potential danger in political involvement; and I believe such an involvement to be one of the essential qualities of education. And, as for the defeatist group of students who feel, "What's the point of making a fight," I can only testify from my own experience that one doesn't know how many allies one has until one makes a fight (or enemies either), and that in this case there are many people, including government officials and "politicians" who would be indebted to Harvard for recalling them...