Word: quill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sanders Theatre echoed with the strains of peace Thursday as two organizations held anti-war rallies within its walls, one featuring Michael Quill, head of the Transport Workers' Union of the C. I. O., the other headlining Norman Thomas, candidate of the Socialist Party for President...
University political groups yesterday reached a new peak in their battle over plans for tomorrow's peace demonstrations when Socialist leader Norman Thomas spiked all attempts to combine the two rallies by refusing to appear on the same platform with Michael Quill, main speaker for the Harvard Peace Rally Committee...
...Quill Agrees...
...leader Quill, keynoter for the 11 o'clock rally in Sanders Theatre, agreed to share his platform with Thomas in spite of the Socialist's opposition to him in the fall political campaign for the New York City Council, saying "On the subject of peace I am willing to talk from any platform with any other speaker...
...Charging Quill with insincerity in his peace declarations, Thomas said in a telephone conversation with Alan Gottlieb '41 that "under no circumstances would I speak from the same platform with Quill except in debate. It would be political suicide...