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...Workshop is sponsored by the National Conference of Christians and Jews and the Service Bureau for Intercultural Education, who have underwritten a number of scholarships to the Workshop, but otherwise have nothing else to do with the functioning of the group. The policy and procedure are determined by the University and the School of Education...
...murderers from other lands. Mr. Byas should recall instantly the haven given to Ricarte of the Philippines, the man who returned to Manila early this year to follow up Japanese occupation of the islands. Not to be overlooked are two Hindus, both married to Japanese, and their maintenance underwritten by Toyama and his followers. They are Rash Behari Bose, and K. Sabarwal, leaders of many mass meetings where Japanese-inspired anti-England haranging was engineered...
...continuance of the regular and traditional class activities. For instance just this year you will come into contact with Student Council affairs in your Red-book, a Council sponsored project; your Smoker, which exists partly on the basis of a Council grant; and your Jubilee, a dance which is underwritten by the Council. Later in your Harvard career you will participate in elections, which can be said without any exaggeration to be paid for by the Council...
...consent decree, being a court order, gives Sterling's officers a Government-underwritten legal out. Meanwhile, to rid the company of any pro-Nazi stigma, the directors last fortnight got Sterling a new president and chairman. (Messrs. Weiss and Diebold moved upstairs to head newly created Board committees.) The new chairman: Edward Sidney Rogers, international patent lawyer and adviser to the State Department. The new president: ex-Sterling treasurer, ex-U.S. Internal Revenue Bureau official, James Hill Jr. Mr. Rogers' knowledge of international law will be especially useful. For although Sterling is relatively safe...
...President whose Lend-Lease Act had financially underwritten the war of all democracies against the Axis, these things were serious news, but possibly not so serious as the fact that in Moscow a non-aggression pact was signed which freed Japan of Russian fears, freed her to sail against the East Indies (see p. 34}. If Japan chooses to move, the President can hardly escape an ugly choice: to abandon the cause of the democracies in half the world, or take...