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Since it was first built early in the 16th century, the chapel of London's Mercers' guild has been twice destroyed-once by the Great Fire of 1666, again by Hitler's blitzes in 1941. This year workmen began digging into the ruins of the chapel, located in the Cheapside section of London, preparatory to rebuilding it again. As they worked their way into the soft earth around the vaults, their shovels clinked against a buried stone object...
Delaney, who is on the boards of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and of the National Lawyers' Guild, which is currently engaged in legal action to stay off the Attorney General's list of subversive organizations, expressed disappointment at the small number of Negroes in the audience. "I would have liked to see more interest and less fear on the part of the Negro students hero," he stated...
...when he charged that "it is about time Harvard clean house" and stop "encouraging and playing host to the Communist Party." He made these statements in a letter protesting Harvard's granting permission for a student-sponsored talk by Osmund Fraenkel, Vice-President of the National Lawyers Guild. He urged the Law School to "take action now to disband" the Harvard Lawyers Guild, then on the School's promises...
Unfortunately, the businessman was too correct for comfort. Early last month, Chalmers, 46, called on Contractor Richard Cecil, a moving spirit in Benton City's clinic guild, and told him that the clinic was going broke. Reason: his patients paid their bills slowly, and Chalmers' long working days gave him no time for sending out reminders. Although he averaged $3,200 a month on paper, his patients were actually paying him only $1,200, some $1,000 less than he needed to meet his expenses...
...debts. At the first meeting, he raised over $600. Later meetings and a benefit supper got the total up to $1,200. Meanwhile, patients began to send in their checks−so well, at first, that Dr. Chalmers was able to pay back a $400 loan the clinic guild had given...