Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past year the Union has more than doubled its membership, starting with a scant 100 last fall. This year for the first time it has printed a monthly bulletin...
Under the presidency of David W. Prall, professor of Philosophy, the Union in 1937-38 attacked President Conant's report recommending limitation of college enrollment as "the ploughing under of human brains." The fight against the Oath Bill and on behalf of Walsh and Sweezy was continued...
...Walsh-Sweezy case that marked the turning point in the Union's increasing concentration on Harvard affairs, as it led the fight for the retention of the two young Economics instructors. Besides issuing a pamphlet denouncing the Administration's attitude toward the Social Sciences, the Union circulated a memorandum requesting a thorough investigation of the Walsh-Sweezy case...
Earlier in the morning, the third Varsity boat, stroked by Barr Comstock, earned a leg on the Stewards Cup by leaving the Union Boat Club nearly three lengths in the wake. And with an ample length of open water, the second 150 boat easily led the Pennsylvania crew in a four boat race...
That President Conant should consent to address the Teachers' Union is a long feather in the caps of organized teachers. It is a fitting tribute to wise leadership and constructive policy on the part of the local branch of the American Federation of Teachers that the President of Harvard, proudest and oldest university in the land, should be the first to kiss timidly the brow of organized labor...