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...mass donation was the result of a plea sent to the Law School student body by vice-Dean Livingston Hall on behalf of Albert R. Ketcham...
World Citizen Garry Davis, who renounced his citizenship in 1948 to plump for a world without boundaries, decided that he wanted to be a U.S. citizen after all. Back from Haiti where he had gone in protest against "American intervention in Korea," he penned a plea to the U.S. Attorney General asking if his U.S. birth and war record would be enough "to bypass the time usually required by an immigrant to become a citizen...
Nobody, least of all any responsible U.S. businessman, quarrels with anti-profiteering objectives. But is an excess profits tax the best way to accomplish it? The argument, unfortunately, has been obscured by such foggy conceits as New York's Fair Dealing Senator Herbert H. Lehman's plea for a tax because, "The mobilization of the profits dollar is just as essential as the mobilizing of human lives...
Meanwhile, students have brought in more books and kept the shelves of our headquarters on the first floor of Agassiz filled," Julia R. Ashenhurst '51, chairman of the exchange, said last night. She estimated that 150 books had been sold and issued a plea for more copies of Locke's "Second Treatise," "Mirror for Man," and Math 1a and Gov 1a books...
After nearly two months of fighting, U.S. and South Korean troops were still the only U.N. ground forces in the war. Promises from other nations of about 33,000 men were still unfulfilled. This week, in response to MacArthur's plea, London ordered the immediate dispatch of two battalions (1,500 men) from the Hong Kong garrison, part of 6,000 Britons who have been pledged to fight in Korea...