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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...archdeacon, his fellow churchmen and a goodly number of British city fathers were outraged by the ease with which Britons could obtain contraceptives at any hour of the night by dropping 2 shillings in a slot machine handily placed before closed stores. This service was damned last week by the British Association of Municipal Corporations as "harmful and dangerous to the individual and the state, especially to young people." The association wanted the government to ban the slot machines...
...Turkish Communist party is an underground outlaw. Today Turkish Communists and their sympathizers probably number less than 5,000 persons...
...Boat Club crew, made up entirely of former Harvard varsity and jayvee to MIT and the College varsity, although the boat has only been together for a week. Lane Burton, stroke, was on its '46 crew; Frank Strong, at six, captained the varsity in '43. Don Felt, number four man, rowed on the crew in '48 and '49; Dick Emmet, number three, held a position on the varsity in '47 and '48. The balance of the crew, Bob Taggart at five, Nat Ober at seven, and bowman Hargo Hansen, were jayvees in '48 or '49. (Hansen in better known...
Though this record is warped by the number of victories Harvard won when football was a family affair with Yale and Princeton, the Indians saved their scalps by staying up in the hills from 1912 to 1922. This was the Golden Age of Crimson football when Percy Haughton's machine won 71 out of 83 games and the Cantabs went to the Rose Bowl...
...list itself. This grouping of organizations was set up without adequate public hearings; inclusion of organizations is left up to the Attorney General. At the present time, it includes a number of groups to which a person can belong and be perfectly innocent of "subversive" activities. The list can be expanded at will; there is nothing to prevent it from some day including organizations like the Catholic War Veterans or the American Legion...