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...guarantee the loyalty of all the 4,000 delegates expected to attend the congress. Despite a vigorous, yearlong purge of opponents of his regime, there is still some resistance?ranging from mute dissent to downright rebellion?on every level of the ruling bureaucracy. Even rank-and-file party members???traditionally the backbone of a Communist state ?are suspect. Analysts note that party membership rose from 21 million to 35 million in the past decade, when the Gang of Four was riding at its highest point. Perhaps as many as 10 million of those new recruits are suspected of being...
...program of Afro-American studies when Negro students insisted on it. It is, moreover, in keeping with the Harvard way that basic decisions are not, as at less democratic universities, made only by a small inner circle of deans. Proposals for major changes are discussed widely among faculty members???and students too?before they are acted on. There may be tension at Harvard, but there is communication as well...
...same club and at the same time President Hoover's hand-picked committee of inquiry into the Gardiner charges was holding its first meeting. Bold old John Hays Hammond was the last to arrive. The committee's other four members???Admiral Hugh Rodman (retired), Assistant Secretary of the Navy Jahncke, Undersecretary of State Castle and Eliot Wadsworth?elected him chairman. The five White House investigators, closeted in a private room, drank "Black Cows" (dark ginger ale and cream) as they pored over documents and records brought from the State & Navy Departments. President Hoover had limited their field of investigation...
...That a fact-finding committee be appointed consisting of nine members???three miners, three operators and three representatives of the public appointed by President Coolidge...
...under the Constitution, promulgated on September 1, 1922, that the Legislative Council was to replace the Advisory Council, which then had only ten unofficial members???four Moslems, three Christians, three Jews. Owing to the non-coöperation of the Arabs the Constitution is now suspended...