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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Originally an interventionist wing of the pacifist Harvard Union, former College liberal group, the insurgent H.L.U. broke away from the larger organization in 1941 during a disagreement over American entry into the war.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HLUE Braves GOP Upsurge To Rally Local Progressives | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

Even the insurgent editors from Cambridge were amazed in mid-morning when they offered a bogus paper to some vendors of the "Dartmouth Pictorial" to attract customers. "Yeah, I heard about this," said one. The editors started to withdraw as their masterpiece did not even inspire a snicker.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Learns the Hard Way Not to Believe everything in Print | 11/12/1946 | See Source »

Area by area, it appears that the outright landslide predicted by the Republicans has been exaggerated to lend a bandwagon effect. The trend is unmistakable, but it is more than doubtful whether the deluge will carry 26 seats in the House and 9 in the Senate to allow for the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 11/5/1946 | See Source »

In the early days, before tractors, radios and paved rural roads, it had been a kind of Wisconsin religion, and fierce-eyed, thick-maned Robert Marion ("Fighting Bob") La Follette was its prophet. When he railed against the "interests" and Wall Street, when he called for public ownership of railroads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Ebb Tide | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

But last week 2,000 insurgent Roxas followers crowded into Manila's Santa Ana Cabaret* drink beer, spout oratory in Tagalog, English and Spanish, and nominate him for the island's highest office. A few days later old line Nacionalistas held a nominating convention in Giro's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: No Holds Barred | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

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