Word: townes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Woburn for their .$7,600. Mayor Kane retaliated by accusing them of being sleepy heads who never earned their $42 per week and therefore should no longer sleep on the town's charity. He ordered their beds & bedding taken away...
...Port Mahon, Minorca's chief town, the British cruiser Devonshire called last week. On board was the Count of San Luis, a Franco negotiator. The British arranged a conference at which Loyalist leaders were told of an impending attack, were threatened with starvation even if the attack were repulsed. Upshot: the red-&-gold Rebel flag was soon unfurled on Minorca and the Devonshire sailed away toward Marseille with 450 Loyalists who had feared to stay on the island...
...past has not exactly improved its relations with local authorities, and it is only within the last two months that conciliatory measures have somewhat improved this situation. Should Harvard now join the fight for repeal of the Oath, the supporters of the law would almost certainly attempt to arouse "town-gown" feeling again. Thus, in the final analysis, the university is confronted with the dilemma of whether to defend freedom of thought and increase local animosity or to ignore officially the struggle over this bill and let the matter drop...
...infringe upon the freedom of the university, but that it may do so in the near future is quite conceivable. Either the present Act may expand in scope or it may simply be the wedge for more stringent laws. Obviously, in contrast to such a threat, any considerations of "town-gown" relations are insignificant. Harvard must again employ all its influence and prestige to help defeat a law which might some day destroy its own intellectual freedom...
Grace attacked the Student Union for its actions in the Roxbury High School case and quoted a letter from Frederick Ernst, head of the Principals' Association of New York City, describing the Union as a "bootleg organization." He also urged "cooperation" as the solution of the Town-Gown problem in Cambridge