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Heading the list were the Committee's honorary chairman, Professor Frans Boas, and Professor Wesley C. Mitchell, both former presidents of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences; Oswald Garrison Villard, former publisher and editor of "The Nation"; Dr. Carleton Washburne, president of the Progressive Education Association; Professor Ralph Barton Perry of Harvard University, author of the Pulitzer Prize biography of William James...
...Swiss-French border has already been closed, since the Swiss fear contamination from some mysterious epidemic which is eating into France at the present time. Nice has been closed to everybody because diphtheria has swept away more than half the Italian garrison there," he stated...
...Another garrison finish: at Baker Field, after Columbia and Syracuse had struggled scorelessly for more than 59 minutes, Syracuse's 145-pound Sophomore Leland Morris drop-kicked a field goal in the last 40 seconds, upset Columbia...
...warped in at Duala, 2,000 miles southwest of Dakar in the Cameroons, three rows of native troops and French soldiers stood at attention. General Charles de Gaulle, leader of Free Frenchmen, stepped ashore. He kissed Governor General Colonel Leclerc on both cheeks. An officer of the Duala garrison shouted, not exactly in the military tradition: "Here you are at home and there's plenty of pinard" (French soldier's slang for wine). Then a pandemonium of cheering broke...
...From Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison's famed war cry: "I am in earnest-I will not equivocate-I will not excuse-I will not retreat a single inch-and I will be heard...