Word: member
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Against this background of struggle month ago a mediocre physician, Adrian Martens, who had been sentenced to death in 1918 (and later reprieved) for plotting Flemish autonomy with Germany, was appointed a charter member of the newly created Flemish Academy of Science. The Walloons were furious and the Cabinet of Premier Paul Henri Spaak fell on that issue. It was suspected that King Leopold had backed the appointment. After that Belgian statesmen struggled to form Cabinets, failed in dizzy succession. Soon the suspicion was rife that the King had dictatorial ambitions. Last week a shortlived Cabinet-that of Walloon Premier...
...last week 5.000 paintings, sculptures and prints sent in by New York State artists alone posed the biggest job of regional art jurying ever undertaken in the U. S. Working all week at an average rate of one work of art per minute, eight hours a day, three nine-member juries barely got through at week's end. Observed Grover Whalen with his usual gleam: "The judging has taught us all a lesson in democracy and the American...
...urge the administration to take appropriate action against the responsible persons to insure that incidents like this will not recur. Richard Sullivan, Chairman, Lowell House Committee. Henry E. Russell, Member of Permanent Class Committee. Cleveland Amory, Ex-President, The CRIMSON. John S. Stillman, President, Harvard Student Union. James Tobin, First Marshal of Phi Beta Kappa. Michael P. Grace, President. The Independents. Mason Fernald, Member of the Student Council. Edward C. K. Read, President, The Lampoon. Theodore Holisworth, Jr., Member of the Student Council. Edmond L. Cherbonnier, President, Phillips Brooks House...
...author of "It is Later than You Think," in which he stresses the need for a "militant democracy in the progress toward democratic collectivism," is a former member of the Harvard Government department and the Adams House staff...
...year-old sprout was dragged from his sleep on a cold cell floor to be prodded with the endless question: "Were you a member of a counterrevolutionary, Fascist, terroristic organization?" After nights of browbeating, the bewildered lad "confessed." The zealous agents then attempted to get him to confess that he had started recruiting for such an organization in 1935 (when he was seven years...