Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main speaker of the evening, Mr. Lamont said that the University was stifling free speech by Communist leaders, and refused to consider that the University merely refuses to hear these doctrines from the mouths of alleged criminals. He claimed full support of Browder's speaking for the John Reed Society among the alumni, which is ridiculous. And all the while he was claiming suppression of Communist or Socialist doctrine by the University, he interspersed glowing pictures of the Socialist State, and even went so far as to hold out alluring promises of $5,000 a year to its members...
...these debates the Oregon system, a new idea that has not been tried before, was used, and, "proved itself to be very satisfactory," House debating authorities said last night. The main characteristic of the system is that cross examination is used instead of the usual speech making...
...only hold one or two meetings a year," Seidman pointed out, "our main objective being to promote the study of scientific socialism. Most of our work consists in sponsoring public lectures by outstanding liberals and Marxists...
Although graduation cost Hodder four of his most reliable men, Captain Austie Harding, Joe Patrick, Johnny Mechem, and Charlie Houghton, he has predicted that the defense will still be fairly strong and that the main handicap is the absence of an outstanding player...
During the recent Congressional debate on neutrality, the slick shipping lobbies worked with might and main to modify the ironclad "carry" provisions backed by the Administration. They got nowhere, but they didn't give up. So, as soon as the Neutrality Act was passed, they bobbed up again with a plan to transfer U. S. ships to Panama registry and sail them into war zones...