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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President & party spent at Groton, his old school 25 miles away, with a return to Worcester and the special train for the night. At the school gates, by order of Dr. Endicott ("Peabo") Peabody, rector and headmaster, the President's entourage of newshawks and all his bodyguard save two Secret Service men were promptly locked...
Clifton L. Jackson '34 describes the treatment given Arthur F. Duffey '36: "We were walking along. . . doing nothing. . . The policeman charged us and my companion, Arthur Duffey, stumbled, grasping at the policeman to save himself from falling. As the officer rode past, he kicked Duffey in the back of the head with his stirrup. Duffey fell and crawled under a fence. . . An officer came up and kicked Duffey several times as he was crawling. . . A plainclothesman. . . identified as Officer Gouldston then came up and joined in beating Duffey...
...Constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College and elect Presidents and Vice Presidents by direct popular vote. At the climax of his speech he addressed the Chair, extending his hand in a dramatic gesture, denying categorically that such an amendment would favor any political party, would serve any end save the true purposes of democracy. Then he sat down amid a hush...
...book makes no attempt to be unbiased. Author Muggeridge dislikes the Soviet system and says so in as many ways as he can manage. Though he has changed people's names to save skins and faces, writes much of his account in fictionalized form, he denies having made anything up. By implication he accuses most of his fellow correspondents of falsifying facts. "It is not generally known that foreign journalists in Moscow work under the perpetual threat of losing their visas, and therefore their jobs. . . . The result is that news from Russia is a joke." The news Author Muggeridge...
...simplest terms, is, that they have just so much money to spend during the academic year; (that they have more than the average student, is beside the point); their club dues come to at least $250 a year. By living in boarding houses in and around Cambridge, they can save anywhere from $100 to $200 on their room rent, and even more on their meals. The price charged by the University for twenty one meals a week is more than reasonable since one could not possible eat as cheaply in the Cambridge restaurants. But the club man naturally wants...