Word: joined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main reasons: 1) I would not collaborate with the State Un-American Activities Committee, but resisted what I considered to be their improper drive against the foundation of our democracy-civil rights ... 2) as a citizen and social psychologist I have exercised my right to petition, meet, speak, and join with organizations having legitimate aims I support; and I have been undistracted by their being called "Communist fronts" by those who oppose . . . such organizations as Consumer's Union, Spanish Refugee Appeal, and the Progressive Party. Hardly a "penalty for secrecy...
...State Department had blown hot & cold for a week, Halvard Lange, Norway's Foreign Minister, headed home for Oslo remarkably unruffled. Lange had been sent to the U.S. by the Norwegian Storting (Parliament) to find out just what it would mean to Norway-put & take-to join in the proposed North Atlantic defense pact...
...enough grounders and broke up enough ball games with his bat to get himself taken on by Haverhill of the New England League. Billy Madden, who managed the Beverly team and also scouted for Connie Mack, was so impressed by young McInnis' hitting ability that he persuaded him to join with Beverly. "My association with Harvard started then," says Stuffy. "The 1907 Beverly club had Eddic Grant, Bill Matthews, and Eddic Loughlin, all students at Harvard Law School...
...Harvard Deans and H. Frederick Willkie, Vice President of Seagram's, distillers, will join to discuss the kind of education desirable for men seeking jobs in business at 8 o'clock tonight in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room. The meeting will be the first in the current series of career conferences, which are sponsored each spring by the Office of Student Placement...
RIAS consistently stays on top of the news. By monitoring Soviet stations 24 hours a day, RIAS picked up the first flash of Jan Masaryk's plunge from a Prague window. That night, Heimlich's staff rounded up politicians and union leaders to join in a Masaryk memorial. Communists, uncertain of the party line, refused to appear, so RIAS broadcast a few moments of silence, explained that the time was reserved for the Reds...