Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Highways to everywhere, dental work for everybody, pensions for the old folks and bonuses for veterans-all this and more Earl Long promised the citizens of Louisiana if they would elect him governor. "Welcome" would be written over the capital door. "The governor gets his house free, and his groceries and everything free," Earl proclaimed, "and I want you all to come up to the mansion and have a cup of coffee. You might as well, because you'll be paying for it anyhow...
...Hawkes's place, they nominated as their candidate David Van Alstyne, 51, OF Englewood, majority leader in the state senate and wealthy Wall Street broker. But Hawkes did not want to quit. Crying "a threat to our free primary system," he announced that he would run anyway...
...work. Their pressing problems to gather enough news to fill the pages, and to write that news as concisely and as fairly as possible. It is not surprising, therefore, that a group of comparatively inexperienced journalists does not always utilize its full opportunities in handling a free college newspaper. An anniversary may be a useful time to articulate the long-range aims, that are generally lost among other necessary, but petty, problems...
Those are the aims of the CRIMSON in its news coverage: editorial policy has been less consistent through the years, perhaps chiefly because the staff changes so rapidly. But the paper, fortunately free of University controls, has always been able to fight for liberal ideals. Realizing the responsibility that goes hand in head with the freedom and the power, it confines its campaigns to issues that are important to the undergraduate...
...editors of the CRIMSON are Iuckier than probably most of them realize. Harvard has a very wise policy of allowing a genuinely free undergraduate press, and I believe this is more than can be said of most universities. This policy makes it possible for the CRIMSON to play an important and constructive role in the life of the University community. But I wonder whether the editors take full advantage of the opportunities which are thus open to them...