Word: pledgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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War moves on the campus cited include numerous incidents of administrative reprisals against critics of the national defense program, the institution of compulsory ROTC units, the military service pledge now required of C. A. A. students, and curtailment of the curriculum.
Those were specific promises. Oratorically he promised that his crusade would culminate in building "a new America with a higher standard of life than we have ever dreamed of before." And finally, at Yonkers, N. Y., he said flatly: "I pledge a new world."
And so it was last week when the Japanese-French agreement on Indo-China forced U. S. action. There was nothing sensational about Secretary Hull's condemnation of the deal. Nor was it exceptional news when, two days later, Jesse Jones announced an Export-Import Bank loan of $25...
What happens to an alderman's salary? A hundred angry taxpayers' leagues, thinking of both the alderman and his salary as fat, have asked this question. Paul Howard Douglas, University of Chicago economics professor, often used to ask it. Last year popular, liberal-minded Paul Douglas decided to...
That evening, in the clear California night, 70,000 people crushed into the Los Angeles Coliseum, watched a Flag Day parachute bomb shoot up, heard The Star-Spangled Banner, watched the flag raised, chanted the pledge of allegiance to the flag, bowed heads in prayer, roared approval as grizzled G...