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...Delegate Hiroshi Kanada, orating against the control bill, exceeded the 20-minute limit, refused the Speaker's order to cease. Said he: "In America a representative holds a record for filibustering for two and a half days. I am ready to talk from four to five days." When the Speaker ordered him ejected, Kanada put up the best fight of the three-day battle, holding out against the Diet guards for a full half-hour. His colleagues joined in, kicking, slapping, yelling and throwing salted beans, gumdrops and a wooden pyramided name tablet at the Speaker. Said one representative...
...first time in history a University dramatic group will swap stages with actors from another school when the Harvard Theatre Workshop players journey to Princeton the first week in January for a three-day showing of Henry IV, Part...
Balloting was followed by an executive committee meeting that outlined the year's proposed activities, which include a rally next February in support of the Rogers bill for increased subsidization on the G.I. Bill, and the establishment of a political action school at Harvard with a three-day symposium next spring. Purpose of the school will be the study of political techniques and the symposium will include famous leaders of labor unions and parties...
These statements were his undoing last week. Under persistent questioning, Eisler finally admitted that he had joined the German Communist Party in 1926, that he had visited Moscow at least three times, that he had once been the guiding spirit behind the Comintern's "international bureau of music." The conclusion was obvious that, whether now or in 1940, he had perjured himself. The committee therefore ended its three-day show by demanding that the Department of Justice 1) prosecute the composer for perjury, and 2) start deportation proceedings against...
Last night Goldberg reported that $7,263 had been collected for the Council Service Fund in the three-day registration period comprising Thursday, Friday, and yesterday. In addition, he estimated that nearly $10,000 worth of pledges had been turned in to the Council for the Fund during the same time. Returning upperclassmen made cash contributions of $3,860 towards the Council goal of $25,000 as they passed through Memorial Hall yesterday, he said...