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Winston Churchill went to Manchester one day in 1906 to attend to some politicking. While there, Churchill was entertained by the local Liberal Party campaign chairman, a wealthy Jewish cotton merchant named Nathan Laski. No one seems to remember whether he met Laski's 13-year-old son, a bright-eyed, dark-haired lad named Harold Joseph...
...Cambridge School Committee, which refused to allow Harold J. Laski to speak in the Cambridge High Auditorium last spring, has allowed Blanshard to speak, "because the presence of Father Dunne insures a fair debate...
...last week, his tall blond figure clad in grey jacket, flannel trousers and narrow-brimmed green felt hat, he motored in his Bugatti sport car to a big Geneva bookstore. He came away with Nehru's Glimpses of World History, Churchill's Their Finest Hour and Laski's American Democracy...
Clarence A. Dykstra, provost of UCLA, apologized to Laski's sponsors, and termed the delay an "overnight." But students at the university circulated several petitions protesting this "overnight," and U.C.L.A.'s Student Executive Council began a move to obtain some voice in decisions regarding outside speakers...
...Laski, who was kept from speaking in a Cambridge high school by the city school committee recently, aroused interest in at least one other place. On March 30, George R. Stunts, a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Washington, suggested that the Board prevent Laski from speaking at the university, although no group on that campus had invited the English economist...