Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doing his best to keep a stiff upper lip, Press Chief Felix von Eckardt reassuringly announced that Adenauer himself would probably agree to testify on the matter-provided his Cabinet gave its consent. In case the Cabinet didn't, Adenauer's Socialist opponents were preparing a batch of questions to throw at der Alte in the Bundestag. Among them: Was it true that Adenauer's daughter, Frau Lotte Multhaupt, had also enjoyed the use of a "borrowed...
...manners are not exactly unusual in politics, but those displayed last week by Harvard's right-wing groups at the organization meeting of the Harvard Socialist Club were more than usually obnoxious...
...they sought to do was to form a club to "present the Socialist point of view, establish a forum to discuss, debate, and propagate these views, and to disseminate Socialist information." All the Republicans, of both the Young and Eisenhower denominations, sought to do was frustrate these aims through a tiresome, deadpan filibuster...
Other disagreements which prevented approval rose over when the constitution should be submitted to the Student Council for charter, and whether the club should be primarily a socialist information fund or an organization with a political mission...
...purposes of the club, according to Horne, are to present a "socialist world view" to Harvard students; to stimulate talk of socialism; and to provide a platform at Harvard for socialism advocates. Intended activities are: a speaker series, inter-and intra-club debates, and publication of current-events newsletters. Horne also suggested a fund-raising entertainment series...