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...into a Boston office building and collided head on with a member of the Liberal Union. After an awkward exchange of pleasantries, the political rivalries discovered they were both in the building to call for Registration literature at their printers. The Republicans' printer was on the fifth floor, the HLU's on the sixth. Both parties picked up their bundles and walked away, muttering about "a small world...
Despite their smaller membership and factional squabbles, the Young Democrats managed to turn out more canvassers than the HYRC--almost fifteen a night. Besides polling Cambridge citizens on their Presidential choice, the Democrats have huckstered a "Stevenson Comic Book". Canvassing interest in the HLU started slowly, but zoomed after the story got around that one Boston lady locked an HLU canvasser in her room and tried to seduce...
...more national appeal was the Liberal Union's trump card in the fight for civil liberties. Although three professors wrote and signed the 1952 Civil Liberties Appeal, it was an HLU project from there on. In a two-week office work orgy, Liberal Union members and their friends prepared 20,000 letters for mailing...
Despite the abundance of partisan activity, there has been little of the bitterness and public name-calling between the groups that marked previous elections. Two years ago, the HYRC ran as ad in the CRIMSON attacking the HLU as "political charlatans" for its "fakery and moral bankruptcy" in challenging Republican gubernatorial nominee Arthur W. Coolidge '06 to debate Gov. Dever via sound truck in Harvard Square. The HLU retorted in kind...
...Their defense was to cite the party's civil rights plank which since 1932 has contained only empty promises," he began. "This is an excellent example of the intellectual dishonesty with which the HLU Continually insults the intelligence of the Harvard community," Schroeder added...