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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Radcliffe American Youth for Democracy finally lost its charter yesterday. For the past few months, Radcliffe student officials have been working with the Dean's Office on some proposal that would keep membership in a political club secret--to allay the justified fears of the RAYD. Last week, the Dean's Office approved a Student Council recommendation that membership lists be destroyed at the end of each year, with only the names of club executives placed on the permanent record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The End of RAYD | 3/1/1949 | See Source »

...violate any other official regulation. If the Dean had regarded the Student Council proposal as an infringement on her prerogatives, she certainly would never have accepted it in the first place. The fact that there has been a case where information regarding political affiliation was given out in the past has no present significance. There was no ruling then; there is one now, and the RAYD has no grounds for questioning the Dean's integrity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The End of RAYD | 3/1/1949 | See Source »

...justice in the past dealt Kuhn a $10 traffic fine in Edgewater, N.J., a $5 fine for drunkenness & public profanity in Webster, Mass., a 2½-to-5-year sentence in Dannemora after he was caught with his hand in the Bund till...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Just Deserts | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Economist Kaplan thought it was going to be just a little burp. So did General Electric Co.'s Chairman Philip D. Reed, who thought that the danger from inflation was past, and that the economy is undergoing a "healthy readjustment." President Truman's demand for price and wage controls, said Reed, "just cannot and should not be considered at this delicate period of readjustment.* [It would] give our Government a great deal more power than the Labor government in England has even asked for." (At the White House, President Truman said that even though some prices were leveling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Choose Your Own Word | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Tobey had also stumbled across a major mystery. In 1947 the Commissioner of Internal Revenue had removed the tax exemption from three of Royal Little's trusts, ordered them to file tax returns on all past incomes. The trusts had not done so, said Tobey, and Internal Revenue had taken no further action. Asked Tobey: "How come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: A Fantastic Picture | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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