Word: hydc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gordon Martin, vice-president of the HYDC, told the convention that "The Republicans have had a better record than the Democrats in Massachusetts on civil liberties...
...have decided to clarify our liberal position before our membership and the college community," Joseph E. Frank '56, H.L.U. president stated. "If we do not present a firm liberal outlook, there is no reason for our existence, as students could join either the HYDC or the HYRC...
...Kefauver for President Club is the only other club which has pre convention campaign plans, since the HYDC, HLU, and HYRC are prohibited, by the nature of their affiliation with national organizations, from supporting pre-convention candidates...
Once the actual campaign starts in September, however, every club interested in practical politics will go into action. The only ones with a definite scheme in mind will be those supporting a Presidential candidate. The more permanent, more broadly based clubs, the HLU, the HYDC, and the HYRC, will have to decide which candidate to support actively...
After the issue of supporting candidates is decided the clubs settle down to the less spectacular task involved in political campaigning. Perhaps the best organized club for political action in 1952 was the HYDC, whose president, Stan Tobin, had worked long and hard in the summer planning for the campaign. He had police type maps of every precinct of Cambridge, and developed a system of methodically covering as much of the area as possible. Despite its small membership, the HYDC attracted the greatest number of workers during the autumn months...