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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From various U. S. Senators the Hazelton, Pa. Flying Club got some queer-sounding telegrams. From Nevada's Key Pittman: "Mildred arrived as storm broke. She is spending the night with me." From Colorado's Edwin Johnson: "The members of the office staff are taking turns sitting on it [a pigeon's egg] in the hope that something might happen." In his office California's Hiram Johnson shouted to his secretary: "Get this chicken out of here. It's raising hell." Explanation: as a publicity stunt arranged by the National Youth Administration each Senator...
After the ritual of cheers--for the Governor, the ladies and the various classes, President Conant gave a short address in which he characterized Governor Saltonstall and himself as the victims of a tradition by which ". . . the 25th class puts on a skit. His Excellency and I are the skit; you, ladies and gentlemen, are the goats...
...absolutely sympathetic with the Communist cause, but for various reasons does not care to be a party member," replied New Jersey's Thomas. "The Administration is now, and has been for some time, placing people in key positions who are either members of the Communist Party or fellow travelers...
Turning to the various positions which will be occupied by the members of the graduating class in the future, President Conant declared that "The fate of our free institutions may well depend quite as much on the honesty, conscientiousness and effectiveness of the man of business as on the proposals of the politician and the administrative decisions of the government official...
...methods by which the report was considered an adopted. . . . Group discussion of the report was actually confined to four informal meetings to each of which some portion of the instructing staff had been invited. Each of these meetings offered those in attendance their sole occasion to discuss all the various recommendations of the report. At each meeting queries and doubts on many points notably on the proposed abolition of the assistant professorship--seemed at least as evident as signs of approval. No specific motions, however, were entertained. Each meeting was prefaced with the statement that votes would not be taken...