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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Election of ten Freshmen to the '50 Jubilee committee is scheduled for noon today in the Houses, Union, and Dudley Hall, with all formal members of the Class of '50 eligible to vote...
...spite of the untactful use of the word "exploitation," the Philippines voted in a plebiscite last week (March 11) to amend the Constitution as Washington wanted. The vote was light (about 1,000,000 out of a registered vote of 3,000,000). With returns still limping in from outlying islands, the vote was about 5-to-1 in favor of the amendment. Even in Manila, center of Philippine economic nationalism, the amendment carried nearly 3-to-1. The only excitement occurred when Philippine President Manuel Roxas got a close shave from a Manila barber, one Julio Guill...
Negroes have been elected (and admitted) to Congress, but never to its press galleries. Some technicality or other in the admission rules always kept them out. Last week a Negro journalist finally made the grade. By unanimous vote of its governing committee, the periodical press gallery admitted Percival L. Prattis, Washington correspondent of Our World,, a Negro monthly magazine published in Manhattan...
...there is no gallery for weekly newspapers). Lautier protested in vain that more than half his income came from the daily; the committee ruled that his "chief attention" was the weeklies. Lautier hoped the Senators would agree with Griffing Bancroft of the Chicago Sun, who cast the only dissenting vote and called his fellow correspondents' decision "nothing short of outrageous...
When the evening ended, Hollywood had not exactly proved, even to itself, that it was really good in 1946. But it had proved that the Academy vote is nowadays reasonably free from political pressure. There was a time when it was possible for two majors to gang up on one independent (like Samuel Goldwyn) and deal him right out the back door...