Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking advantage of the growing crisis in international diplomacy to present a united Harvard front against war, 23 undergraduates representing 15 leading student organizations yesterday officially sanctioned preparations for a mass peace demonstration on April...
Contrary to some headlines, this was no mass sherry-sipping party at which girl students indulged in a miniature Roman orgy. About seventy Radcliffe alumni and friends were there, including some of Harvard's best known professors. For this group, twelve girl students were enlisted to serve wine. These students did not imbibe; their's but to stand and wait. A part of the Radcliffe Choral Society which entertained at dinner, however, did receive some of the "alcoholic depressant," as the preacher chose to term good sherry, although certainly not in such quantities as to outrage the memory...
...long as most of the major rubber firms were concentrated in Akron. But in 1936 Akron rubber workers staged a strike which raised wages still further. Goodyear, Firestone and to a lesser extent Goodrich then began building plants in such scattered spots as Oaks, Pa., Jackson, Mich., Fall River, Mass. Akron now produces only 40% of U. S. rubber as against 55% two years ago. Akron rubber workers, however, still cling to their high wage rate (an average of $1.05 an hour against a nationwide average of 96.3?), even though it has meant part-time work for some of them...
...first time in many years, 15 leading undergraduate organizations will back a mass peace demonstration to be held on April 27, it was revealed yesterday. For the first time also the Student Union will not be the sole sponsor of the affair...