Word: war
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the Dust. But there were difficulties. The legal right of the U.S. to move troops into Formosa was open to serious challenge. By the treaty of 1895, which followed the Sino-Japanese War, Formosa went to Japan...
...story went like this: in 1943 and 1944, Racey Jordan was stationed at Great Falls, Mont, as a Lend-Lease expediter and liaison officer with the Russian staff headed by a Colonel Anatoly Koti-kov. Through Great Falls moved thousands of U.S. war planes to be ferried on to Russia by way of Alaska. Jordan became suspicious of the black suitcases arriving by special plane and accompanied by armed Russian guards. One day he decided to take action, entered a plane, brushed aside two Russian couriers who "were screaming about diplomatic immunity," and broke open the cases...
Harry Darby learned the boilermaker's trade in his father's small shop, was a combat artillery captain in World War I, and on his father's death in 1923 brashly borrowed $120,000 from a bank to buy and improve his father's boiler shop, groomed it into a rich and versatile steel-fabricating company...
...past four editorials in this series it has been shown how the rules of the Dean's Office for regulating student activities have been formulated to meet certain problems which have annoyed or embarrassed the Dean's Office. These problems have been: 1) post-war political tensions, 2) bad debts, 3) increased concern for public relations, and 4) Radcliffe-Harvard relations...
Unfortunately, in its concern for solving these specific problems, the Dean's Office has failed to evolve any comprehensive philosophy of student rights. Consider the freedoms student groups have lost since before the war. They have lost the freedom to take any action outside Cambridge without Dean's Office permission, the freedom to have Radcliffe girls as members, the freedom to hold rallies in the Yard, the freedom to have a large volume of outside authorship in publications, and numerous other freedoms detailed in previous editorials in this series...