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...Western Union, a radio station), bought the ailing Post. Fox missed no sensational tricks to get circulation, used shock tactics to get Bostonians to read his own Page One editorials and his financial column under the byline "Washington Waters." Harvardman Fox also lashed out at his alma mater as a hotbed of Reds, and later took credit for the Post because "treason has gone out of style at Harvard." He urged, in effect, that the U.S. end the cold war by starting World War III. "The Great Attack, the last one we consider to be inevitable within five years...
Marquette University recently wrote that it would be happy to argue with any Harvard debaters touring the Wisconsin area. But the alma mater of Senator Joe would not quibble over such dry topics as Free Trade. Let us debate "McCarthyism," they suggested, and the old home town will pack the house. Their idea was modified to read, Resolved: That All Investigations of Subversives Should Be Restricted to the FBI. The Harvard team packed its evidence and headed West...
Debaters from Marquette University, the Senator's alma mater, defended the negative of the topic, "Resolved, That investigation of subversives be restricted to the Federal Bureau of Investigation," and won a two to one verdict over the College team. Judges for the event, which was hold in Milwaukee, were two high school debate coaches and a columnist from the strongly pro-McCarthy Milwaukee Sentinel...
...Mason, Mich., after Sheriff Willard Barnes complained in the Lansing State Journal that the County Jail was short of blankets and mattresses, he received two new blankets with an unsigned note: "As a minor [alumnus], may I take this opportunity to make a small contribution to my Alma Mater during the current emergency...
...bolt had been in the form of Yale graduate and benefactor Edward S. Harkness '97, who had come to Lowell after being turned down by his alma mater. Yale had been unprepared for his offer to finance subdivision, but Lowell was already strongly convinced overgrown Harvard had to be split up. Ten seconds after Harkness had offered his financial assistance, Harvard had for all practical purposes become the guinea pig for large American colleges...