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Anonymous phone calls from Legionnaires to the University brought the matter to the attention of students. The reacion was immediate. The Nebraska University Student Council passed a resolution "expressing complete confidence in the loyalty, integrity, and principles of Dr. Anderson." The Daily Nebraskan said the Legion tactics were creating "a nation of spies." Nothing happened to Anderson or "The State of Asia," but at least one member of the Legion's Un American activities committee has resigned because of the incident...
Anonymous phone calls from Legionaires to the University brought the matter to the attention of students. The reacion was immediate. The Nebraska University Student Council passed a resolution "expressing complete confidence in the loyalty, integrity, and principles of Dr. Anderson." The Daily Nebraskan said the Legion tactics were creating "a nation of spies." Nothing happened to Anderson or "The State of Asia," but at least one member of the Legion's Un-American activities committee has resigned because of the incident...
...even one about to be decorated, is not encouraged to argue with his division commander. So one day last week Private Walter N. Johnson was whisked from his battle post on Korea's western front and flown to Seoul. Bands were playing bravely as the 21-year-old Nebraskan was lined up with seven high-ranking U.N. officers at Eighth Army headquarters. Then His Serene Highness, Siamese Prince Pridi-debyabongs Davakul, pinned to the private's chest the Silver Medal of the Crown of. Thailand. What for? "I haven't the slightest idea," said Private Johnson...
...Peru, Neb., one of seven children of a political science teacher who had recently moved from upstate New York. Father later transferred to the University of Nebraska, where young Herb was entered after graduation from Lincoln, Neb. high school. Took a liberal arts course, edited the campus Daily Nebraskan, graduated in 1924 with Phi Beta Kappa honors and a scholarship to Yale Law School. At Yale, edited the Law Journal, graduated cum laude...
...floor leader, he speedily established himself as the watchdog of party loyalty. When Taft sponsored a public-housing bill, Wherry accused him of a tendency towards socialism. With the exception of farm subsidies, which Nebraskan Wherry supported, he racked up as consistent a record of opposition to the New Deal and the Fair Deal as any Republican Senator. He called the Atlantic pact a "trap" and the Greek-Turkish program a "military adventure...