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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Further outbreaks of political fervor led the CRIMSON and the Student Council to ask for decorum in the 1904 and 1908 demonstration for favorite son Teddy Roosevelt '80 and W. H. Taft. Ralliers left their feet in 1912, however, and piled into flivvers for the first "flying" rallies--all for the Progressive Party and T. R. But T. R.'s Harvard chances were damaged by President Eliot's declaration for Woodrow Wilson, who wound up with 735 College votes, compared to 475 for T. R. and 365 for Taft...
Peter H. Clayton '50, Lucian C. Parlato '50, and Arthur W. Purcell '50 made up the College team here. They argued that there was little difference between the two parties, that Truman couldn't bring unity, and that the Democratic had broken...
...Haven, William H. Righter '49, Richard D. Rohr '48, and Sedgwick W. Green '50 represented the College. They pointed out that the country was in good shape and that many of Truman's errors may be laid to the Eightieth Congress...
Professors Warren A. Seavey and W. Barton Leach upheld the Republican stand, Professor Mark DeW. Howe defended Truman, while Associate Professor John, Ciardi spoke for the Third Party, with Professor Zechariah Chafee taking an impartial stand between the major candidates...
While J. P. W. lived in the White House, his record was almost unimpeachable. Religious leaders blessed him for refusing to wed the illegitimate daughter of an illegitimate son of an illegitimate nephew of Napoleon, a stand which incidentally showed Wintergreen to be steadfastly against entangling alliances and alien unorthodoxy...