Word: groups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next fall, the Harvard Society for Industrial democracy will renew its activities, Stephen J. Seligman '52 announced yesterday. The organization, inoperative since 1948, the group suspended its meetings for lack of active members. With the greater number of non-veterans, the new group hopes to regain the popularity that it had before the formation of the American Veterans' Committee...
Under the faculty advisership of Albert S. Coolidge '15, lecturer in Chemistry, the group next year will present a series of lectures and discussion meetings to air current problems in social economics. A trip to the cooperative stores in Maynard. Massachusetts and correspondence with foreign sympathists are also on the 1949 program...
Throughout its history the University of Michigan has had a ban on drinking in fraternity houses and dormitories. But any group of Michigan students determined to throw a bottle party in their quarters could think of dozens of speakeasy tricks to foil the campus cops...
Sesquipedalian Words. Last week, U.S. readers could find out a good deal more about the panjandrum. A group of scholars, critics and historians had written sketches and tributes for a book about him (Archibald Henderson: The New Crichton, edited by Samuel Stevens Hood; Beechhurst Press; $5). Among the contributors were the late Historian Charles A. Beard, Novelist Betty Smith, and the university's ex-president (now U.S. Senator), Frank Porter Graham. Each took a different phase of the Henderson chronicle...
Long before President Truman called for the export of U.S. know-how and capital to other nations of the world (in his famed Point Four), the same idea had occurred to a small, forward-looking group of U.S., British and Canadian capitalists. The group included ex-Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, onetime OSS Boss William J. Donovan and Britain's Sir William Samuel Stephenson, World War II boss of all British secret operations in the Western Hemisphere. At war's end, they and associates* formed the World Commerce Corp. and raised an initial $1.000.000 to help "bridge...