Word: lyford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-written appraisal of the recently exposed "Yankee American Action" by Joseph P. Lyford '41 makes a fine lead-off article, while G. Robert Stange's Convention Commentary provides a too-long delayed analysis of the atmosphere that prevailed at the ASU Madison convention. Both are thoroughly interesting treatments of significant trends in American thought...
Joseph P. Lyford '41, who recently revealed the Harvard activities of the Yankee-American Action, was yesterday termed a "human fly and boll weevil" by Edward H. James, leader of the group...
Declaring that he had suspected Lyford from the first, James added that the Harvard Junior "blanched" at the order to wear a red shirt and "here or zero pin," the group's insignia in a proposed parade...
...Lyford will be interviewed about the expose over Station WEEI at five o'clock today...
...party state in which Catholics would have no part. Pamphlets were publicly distributed, for example, in which James railed against "this Mick pestilence" and said, "Rome, the Italian International, must pack up its baggage and go." But privately, James went even farther; at a recent meeting he told Lyford that when his Yankee totalitarianism is established, "there won't be any Catholics". In his platform, James left an absurdly obvious loophole: "Freedom for religious worship is guaranteed for all groups." The doubtful logic of this statement he now supports by stressing that he is opposed only to certain vicious practices...