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. . . TIME refers to me as "Chicago's famed radical Catholic bishop," in its coverage of the A.V.C. Convention at Des Moines [TIME, June 24].
Led by Chief Warrant Officer Hugh Curry, whose home is in Cambridge, the band is normally attached to the Washington Military District and plays at all formal military occasions around the capitol. One of its principal duties is playing for military funerals at Arlington National Cemetery. The outfit, however, came...
Tonight will mark the first meeting of the Cambridge chapter of the American Veterans Committee since the organization's national convention earlier this month in Des Moines, Iowa. The meeting will be held at the Cambridge Y.M.C.A. opposite the City Hall.
When the proceedings began in the Hotel Fort Des Moines, nobody could be sure what the end would bring. Up until then A.V.C. had followed a loose, sweeping "Statement of Intentions" with a notable, laudable motto: "Citizens first, veterans second."
* Translating theory into action, A.V.C. members picketed a tavern which refused to serve two Negro veterans, had the proprietor arrested for violation of the Iowa state civil-rights law on charges backed by onetime Willkie-man Oren Root Jr. Next day, the New Yorker's E. J. Kahn Jr...