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...wish the College would lay plank walks in the Yard. . ." ". . . We have recently heard many complaints from the members of '74 of the sudden disappearance from the College Library of the books which contain the subject-matter of their themes. . ." With these weighty pronouncements did the CRIMSON's oldest ancestor, the Magenta, break upon the Harvard scene on the morning of January...
...carry, might cause his Government to fall. To U.S. soldiers who had come 8,000 miles to help defend Australia, it seemed ludicrous that Australian troops, aside from volunteers, could not move freely throughout the South Pacific. But the Labor Party's no-conscript-overseas plank was firmly nailed down. Last spring Curtin himself led a fight which defeated a proposal for change, saying it would be made "when the time comes...
Mike Feighan (fee-an) ran on a single plank: Cleveland's votes would show whether it was for or against the Administration's war program. The Plain Dealer and the News joined Editor Seltzer's crusade, although newspapers usually consider it a competitive disadvantage to join a rival's campaign...
...team that beat Notre Dame's Four Horsemen, was nominated by the Republicans for Governor. Third in the race was tempestuous Senator Clyde Reed, who had gone back home, hopping mad over the closed shop and union initiation fees at Kansas war plants, to run on a one-plank platform: "fair" labor legislation. (He incidentally wanted to take State party control from the old Alf Landon machine.) Soothed the Kansas City Star: "Kansas voters [merely] sent him back to Washington, where many believed his issue belonged...
...Massachusetts' First Congressional District Raymond Leslie Buell, 46, scholar, foreign-affairs expert, has entered the Republican primary for Congress against Allen Towner Treadway, 74, conservative Congressman for 29 years (TIME, July 20). Quiet, bespectacled Raymond Buell is running on a one-plank platform: How can Congress be improved? Unless Congress stops playing politics and buckles down to its job, he thinks, the war may be longer, the peace might be botched. One night last week friends of Mr. Buell's came to his house in Richmond in a hayrack, carried him down to the Town Hall. There...