Word: halled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insists (and camp appearances bear out) that morale has risen immensely since the first days, when depression-sore enrollees refused by the thousands to take the CCC oath of allegiance, demolished a mess hall and destroyed trees at Camp Dix, N. J. But the rate of desertions is still high: 48,483 in fiscal 1938; 1,741 last December...
...campaign to enroll volunteers got off with a typically British start, a mass meeting in London's Albert Hall, where 10,000 were addressed by Air Raid Precautions Chief Sir John Anderson. Sir Walford Davies, Master of the King's Musick, led a singsong, urged the audience to sing loud because the rally was being broadcast "and probably Hitler will pick it up." When it came to singing the Lambeth Walk, he insisted on more umph...
Chanting "Kill Jews! Kill Jews!", the crowd marched off through the streets, smashed Jewish-owned store windows, stoned a Jewish pool hall, converged on the auditorium of the Jewish Chamber of Commerce. There many of Mexico City's Jews had gathered to hear a lecture by Leon Forem, a Yiddish novelist from The Bronx. Prevented from entering by a barricade of tables and chairs hastily thrown up by the audience, the demonstrators besieged the building and hurled rocks through the windows. Finally police and firemen, armed with submachine guns and fire hoses, forced the mob to disperse...
...Spain Today and Tomorrow" will be the topic of a free public lecture at Harvard tonight by Professor E. Allison Peers, of the University of Liverpool, England, at Emerson Hall at 8 o'clock. The lecture is under the auspices of the Department of History and of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures...
Applications from students in the college for scholarships for 1939-40 are now available at the Information Desk, 4 University Hall. Applications for the Baxendale, Buckley, Downer, Holtzer, Lydig, Parker, Phoutrides, Reynolds, and Stoughton scholarships, and for other scholarships open to students in all departments of the University must be filed before February 20. All other applications are due before March...