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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outraged by comics that piously headline their pages "Obey the Law" while dripping with murder by meat cleavers, quicklime, axes and buzz saws, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors took drastic action. It passed an ordinance providing a $500 fine or a six-month jail term for selling crime comics to children under 18. The law will cover only the rural areas of the county, but the legislature will be asked to make the ban statewide...
That happened once in the middle of a term to one secretary. At the beginning of every term the same kind of thing happens to secretary after secretary, day after day. They must answer the questions of youths who have forgotten their fields of concentration or who would like to know if they can arrange to eat breakfasts in Dunster House, lunches in Lowell, and dinners in Adams, all at a special rate, if they promise never to ask for seconds...
...Student Apathy League, Harvard's only side of the road political organization, came sleepkwalking into its second term yesterday. Boasting no boosters, solicitors, or lapel snatchers the apathy league holds together its 3000 odd members by the sheer force of inertia...
Under the new rules, old book cards, hitherto renewed each term, are now void. New cards will be issued only to those veterans who have excess eligibility time which apply to tuition and books...
Plans for an eleventh-hour campaign to enroll unregistered voters will form the main item on the Liberal Union agenda when the club holds its first meeting of the term at 3 p.m. in Little Hall...