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...Press promptly recalled five other liberal professors who have lately walked Pitt's plank. Friends brandished an investigation by American Association of University Professors. Labor leaders promised a huge protest meeting. Led by a June graduate of Pitt named Marjorie Hanson, the League for Social Justice called for Chancellor Bowman's resignation, promised a house-to-house canvass of Pitt students. State Democratic Chairman David L. Lawrence suggested that at its next session the Legislature might well cut Pitt off its lifeline of State...
...Collier & Son Co. Few months later "Ding," no grudge-bearer, joined Publisher Beck and Professor Aldo Leopold of University of Wisconsin on President Roosevelt's Committee on Wild-Life Restoration. The Committee's program, last week awaiting President Roosevelt's approval, has for its major plank the conversion of submarginal farm lands into game reservations and breeding grounds. Created in 1886, the Biological Survey is the Federal Government's chief wildlife conservation agency. In laboratory & field its agents study animal habits and diseases, experiment with the raising of game and furbearers, stamp out predators of game...
...Britain still another public defense of democracy appeared last week in a manifesto signed by about 100 good Britons with good names. Admitting that democracy is on trial, they demanded "not a passive defense but an active campaign in its advocacy.'' At the end was their four-plank platform...
...rigging, in Professor Schmidt's beard, a heavy load of ice formed. Last week the ice pack broke the Chelyuskin's steel heart. From bow to engine room the port side stove in amid great grindings and crunchings. The sudden cold burst the steam pipes. A plank swept the chief steward overboard...
...author of the folksong that ranks close behind "Casey Jones." Judge Davis quoted the Dalhart version which Victor attributes to two other Virginians, Charles Noell and Henry Whitter who took Noell's poem, modified it a bit and sang it around on street corners and in plank taverns to a guitar and harmonica accompaniment. Dalhart made "The Old 97" go this...