Word: lashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Currie, President Roosevelt's administrative assistant, sent on a fact-finding trip to China. Watching the mass of labor, Lauchlin Currie observed that the building of the pyramids must have looked like this. But in Chiang Kai-shek's China there was no slave driver with a lash. The job was bossed by a Chinese civil engineer (a graduate of the University of Illinois) who directed the 75,000 by blowing a whistle...
Disagreeing with the policies of the American Student Union because of its Communistic tendencies and its refusal to accept the defense program, Joseph Lash, Secretary of the International Student Service, advocated the foundation of a new student league in a speech last night in the Kirkland House Common Room...
During the ensuring discussion, officers and members of the Student Defense League and the Harvard Liberal Union considered a possible merger of their groups to form the nucleus of the unit proposed by Lash and, although no decision was reached, both groups seemed favorably inclined...
Joseph P. Lash, executive secretary of the International Student Service and former chief of the American Student Union, will speak on "The Challenge to Progressive Students" this evening. Lash's talk, sponsored by the Liberal Union, will begin in the Kirkland Common Room at 7:30 o'clock...
Tolstoy. His letters to Caucasia decreed vegetarianism, communal property, no alcohol, no tobacco, no soldiering, no sexual intercourse. These decrees made the Dukhobors more fanatical than ever. The Cossacks tried harder to lash them into submission. Over this persecution Tolstoy, Quakers, Christian Socialists, idealists everywhere seethed, then arranged a Dukhobor migration to the untilled Canadian prairies...