Word: haras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attention has been called to a defense of Walter E. O'Hara which has, strangely enough, come out of Harvard University...
...quite aware that Mr. O'Hara is not a graduate of Harvard and does not appear as a former student upon the printed list of such students. Also, I am pleased that a graduate of Harvard Law School and a former student of mine was elected Governor of Rhodo Island...
...previous careers of these two men and the question whether either or both of them was at Harvard can have nothing to with my opinions about the legal merits of the Governor's proclamation of martial law and about the unfairness of his midnight arrest of Mr. O'Hara in a private libel action for damages of astronomical proportions...
...have sometimes found the law to be favorable to Mr. O'Hara, this is not due to any liking for him, because in newspapers he has frequently attacked two members of my family for whom I have the highest possible admiration. This personal dislike for Mr. O'Hara, shared by many of my former fellow-citizens in Rhode Island, throws on us an even heavier obligation to be sure that Mr. O'Hara's constitutional rights are not invaded...
Writing in the Harvard CRIMSON, Professor Zechariah Chafee, Jr., getting his background on the race-track situation here from the Boston newspapers, has written a series of articles, parts of which Mr. O'Hara has seen fit to use in his newspaper in defense of himself...