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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which it has spent $25,574,000 in the last two years. When the job is done, Woolworth's will have transformed itself completely into a medium-price variety chain. The company has already copied many merchandising frills from its tonier competitors. The Houston store will make free deliveries of purchases over $5 and, like some other Woolworth stores, it has a "layaway" plan-a kind of charge account in reverse-under which a customer makes a down payment on a piece of merchandise, pays regular installments, but does not get the article Until it is completely paid...
...important to note that this doctrine applies when freedom of speech is abused to the point of a person screaming "fire" in a crowded theatre when he knows that no danger of fire exists. It is quite a different matter to apply this limiting doctrine to the realm of free thought and opinion where there is no overt act contrary to anyone's interests of security...
There are a sufficient number of criminal statutes on the books to convict those who are guilty of subversive activity; instead of loyalty oaths, to muzzle the growth and exchange of free opinion, what is needed is an understanding that those who foster and use undemocratic instruments such as loyalty oaths also foster an undemocratic society. Unless the use of such oaths and other similar practices are discontinued, freedom of thought and expression will be completely effacted, and Navy-sponsored snoopers and back fence peeping-toms will not be limited to the Harvard campus. Irwin Gostin...
...runs the Harvard Report on General Education in a Free Society...
...University's Goethe Bicentennial Celebration ends this week with two lectures at Fogg Museum. Edwin Redslob, Rector of the Free University of Berlin, will talk tonight at 8 p.m. on "Goethe and the Graphic Arts," and Karl Vietor, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture, will discuss "Goothe's Concept of Life" in German, Thursday...