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Captain Carroll T. Bonney, professor of Naval Science, plans to tell the Chief of Naval Personnel about sympathies expressed at yesterday's meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. "The general opinion was that the so-called stool-pigeon clause should be omitted from the certificate in its application to Harvard students," Bonney said last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Discusses Informer Clause, Criticisms Will Go to Naval Heads | 2/8/1950 | See Source »

Fifteen hundred people, four horses and one pigeon turned out in the center of Havana, Ill. (pop. 5,000) one night last week for a torchlight parade. On North Plum Street the pigeon left the parade and soared in an easterly direction to carry the tidings to Harry Truman in Washington. The message, which the Pres ident had already gotten from sources faster than a carrier pigeon,* was that Scott Lucas, majority leader of the U.S. Senate, had officially decided to seek reelection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Torchlights in Havana | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

Then Scott Lucas was off, like the pigeon, for Washington, to spend most of the next six months on the job, while Dirksen makes hay on the hustings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Torchlights in Havana | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...pigeon flew into a bad storm over Columbus, went on instruments, hasn't been heard from since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Torchlights in Havana | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...Navy served notice Thursday that it would not change the wording of the "stool pigeon clause" but would urge its broadest possible application

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vinson Against Johnson On Draft Law Extension | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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