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...denouncing daily grew louder, City College's Acting President Harry N. Wright called a special assembly of his faculty and students and publicly spanked the college's Reds. Said he: "Academic freedom does not mean unrestricted license. . . . The Communists make use of any issue upon which they can lay their hands to promote rebellion and dissension." Three days later Dr. Wright suspended the college's No. 1 ex-Communist, red-haired English Tutor Morris U. (for nothing) Schappes, who confessed to the Rapp-Coudert Committee that he had been a party member for five years. He ordered...
...rumor zoomed louder than others: that the President planned to lend the British a number of U. S. Navy light cruisers of the Omaha class (7,050 tons, ten 6-in. guns, four 3-in. anti-aircraft guns); a number of destroyers (not the Navy's newest, which Navy Secretary Knox calls "young cruisers"); and unlimited numbers of motor torpedo (mosquito) boats both large & small. For these the British would trade at least two spanking-new battleships of the enormous King George V class (35,000 tons, mounting ten 14-in. guns). With the two new U. S. battleships...
Sirens had sounded. Most of London had descended into shelters, but to those in the cabaret, time seemed too dear to squander underground. Bombs began to fall near by: it was London's worst night raid in weeks. The orchestra played Oh, Johnny a little louder...
...ground and his senses began to return he sent a quick, terrified look about the room. Yet everything looked the same. The roof was still in place, and the delivery desk still retained its immemorial position. He sank limply back in his seat. A second screech, louder than the first, struck him between the eyeballs. As the echoes died away in the furthermost corners of the old building he could hear the dust dropping back on the books and his separated vertebrae clicking back into their places...
...Trouble bubbled anew at Ford, where C. I. O.'s Auto Workers' union gave formal notice (as required by Michigan law) of intent to strike at the Lincoln plant, at Highland Park, at gigantic River Rouge. What worried Knudsen as much as anything was the howl, getting louder & louder, for legislative action to prevent strikes...