Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farther from the truth. The chapters were suspended (not ousted) because they had voted to seat, on a local council, an AVC member who had previously been suspended for appearing on a program of the American Labor Party as a representative of AVC, in contraversion of AVC's firm policy of political neutrality. Neither the Marshall Plan (which we support) nor any other political issue was involved. It was strictly a matter of open defiance by these chapters of the national organization, which of course could not be tolerated. Eastman Birkett 3L Chairman, Harvard Chapter...
Last week Denver's course in folklore was going high, wide & handsome. It now has a firm place in the curriculum. The course is not compulsory, but 420 kids this year begged for the chance to try it. They read all about Bunyan, and how he wept so much when his blue ox Babe fell ill, that his tears formed the Great Salt Lake. Then the kids make maps of Utah...
...Jake doggedly formed a new company which bought the old firm's assets for $400,000, and began building their present smaller but much less vulnerable empire. Completely self-sufficient, it includes a script company (which owns more than 1,000 shows), a music publishing company, a scenery-and-costume company, and the Trebuhs (Shubert spelled backwards) Realty Co., which, with the Shubert Theater Corp., owns 16 of the 32 legitimate theaters in New York, owns or controls 21 outside...
...local TV coverage--which can be seen in a radius of 40 miles--will be handled by Chris Shenkel and sponsored by a cigarette firm...
Goalposts, always a vital subject to the HAA, fared better Saturday than on other occasions this season. The first phalanx of disgruntled Providence natives discovered a small but firm police cordon which politely informed them that Mr. Bingham felt no compulsion to donate his posts in the light of the final score...