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MASSACHUSETTS : three-term Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, the man who led the Eisenhower campaign through the troublesome months before the Republican Convention, now needs some help from Ike. Lodge, one of the ablest men in Congress, has always been an effective vote-getter. He is being challenged by Representative John Kennedy, 35, member of a famous Massachusetts family, a war hero, a good Congressman and an excellent campaigner. A coolness has developed between Kennedy and some Democratic politicians. Nevertheless, Lodge probably cannot win unless Ike carries Massachusetts by a comfortable margin...
With all that to talk about, Representative Fred G. Aandahl, a former three-term governor who had never lost a state election, took Bill Langer on in the Republican primary. The winner would be a sure bet in November; North Dakota has sent only one labeled Democrat to Congress...
Died. Oscar Stanton De Priest, 80, first Negro to serve on Chicago's city council (1915-17), first of his race ever sent by Northern voters to the House of Representatives*(three-term Congressman from Chicago's "Black Belt," 1929-35); of a kidney ailment; in Chicago. In Washington he worked unceasingly for a national anti-lynching law. His wife and Mrs. Herbert Hoover scandalized the South when the First Lady received her at a White House tea; shortly thereafter Alabama's late Senator "Tom-Tom" Heflin calculated that to "punch De Priest in the nose" would...
Today seven months after the outbreak of the Korean War, the University is nowhere near a wartime footing. But in January 1942, within a month of Pearl Harbor, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences had voted a three-term year for the College and G.S.A.S. The Navy took over the Yard dorms in July of 1942, and by July '43, undergraduates lived only in Dunster, Adams, and Lowell Houses...
...measures to meet the war situation were soon forthcoming. On January 7, 1942, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to admit freshmen in February and July as well as in September, thus putting the College on a three-term year basis. The Summer School course was extended to 12 weeks and was put on a par with the fall and spring terms...