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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until now, the only concern shown at Harvard for the establishment of the mixed regiment has been the half-hearted ineffectual attempts of minority groups to petition the student body. But because of the special importance of this measure, the Student Council, as a non-partisan sponsor, could step beyond its normal activity and circulate petitions for a mixed regiment. Action is necessary; the Council can act best, without political affiliation, to gather the opinion of the student body: opinion which will call for the beginning of a change in the radical attitudes of the nation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Great Schism | 3/10/1943 | See Source »

...best war dramas on the air got its first sponsor last week. The drama is CBS's five-month-old sustainer, The Man Behind the Gun. The sponsor is Elgin National Watch Co., now fully converted to war work (precision instruments) and willing to tell about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: War Drama | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

Ware rose to his feet again, this time to move that the Association sponsor a farewell party for the maids. The consensus of opinion seemed to be that each man should let the punishment fit the crime and that action be guided by individual conscience. The motion died from lack of a second. By way of an apology, Ware claimed that the motion was introduced only on behalf of a constituent, the whom we will leave anonymous...

Author: By Richard D. Robinson, | Title: Q. M. COMMUNIQUE | 3/5/1943 | See Source »

Administration leaders had sought to detach the rider and obtain separate votes on it and the main measure. Their failure presages a floor clash between them and backers of Rep. Wesley E. Disney, D., Okia., sponsor of the amendment, who calls it the first wedge in a drive against "government by directive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 3/4/1943 | See Source »

Gone Far. This controversy was a rare occurrence in U.S. radio, whose impresarios can seldom summon sufficient nerve to question the taste of a rich sponsor's advertising. It was also too tempting a publicity opportunity for Dan Golenpaul to overlook. As is the case with many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Golenpaul's Pride | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

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