Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pitts, on the other hand, who claimed a desire to participate in the protest, and whose attempt to disrupt the meeting also called forth Thursday's letter, the John Reed Society apparently did not see fit to invite him to speak. Whether this was an oversight or an intentional omission I myself cannot say. Even if it was the latter, their action is certainly understandable. Liberals and progressives have long known form bitter experience the destructive activities of those who call themselves Trotskyites. These activities have been felt by liberal organizations everywhere. Had he been seriously interested in the purpose...
Censorship's heavy hand descended on Cambridge news merchants yesterday when Police Chief Leahy, objecting to a picture entitled "Nude" in the current issue of Popular Photography, banned the sale of that magazine on all newsstands...
...when Recession set in, Nancy had collected over $7,000. Then William Edmund Scripps, president of the Detroit News Corporation, decided to take a hand. He pointed out that with $1,000 a month in donations it would still take eight more years to raise enough. "Make them be business-like," he told his domestic columnist. Said Nancy: "They won't be businesslike. It's not that kind of a column." Nevertheless, she asked them to stop-and money still came...
...Nancy Brown Peace Carillon. She broke the sod with a beribboned spade supplied by Publisher Scripps of the News. The ceremony was unheralded : only the tower's architect and trustees, a few city officials, the News editor, Nancy Brown's grandniece and grandnephew were on hand...
...liberal guns of the nation are being levelled upon Harvard. This "great and traditionally liberal university"--as the National Advisory Council on Academic Freedom ironically termed it--has been charged on every hand with turning reactionary and with limiting academic freedom. After all, Mr. Greene could have expected no other effect when he made his decision. Most of his critics are too earnest in their bias to see the true nature and logic of the case...