Word: localism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting took place anyway, and Winston was there. The local Teachers' Union claimed the club was only trying to "challenge the legality of the ruling." The "challenge" was met, with immediate suspension for the Karl Marx club and its three executives...
Although affiliating with the fraternity, the Debate Council chapter will remain an autonomous group outside the national set-up to keep its official University recognition. The local chapter, founded in 1909, withdrew from the fraternity...
Qualifications for membership in the fraternity for local debaters will be participation in the triangle debates with Yale and Princeton, and in any international debate. Last March the Club defeated Cambridge University...
...January, 1948, Leonard wrote a letter to a local newspaper criticizing the gross receipts tax and urging instead a state income tax. He spoke purely as a private citizen, but he was called in by a Rutgers official and told that since his letter reflected a viewpoint, that viewpoint should conform more closely to that of the college administration...
Leonard once read of the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors, tried to settle these grievances, but nothing was accomplished. So he spilled his story to the newspaper and then resigned his post...