Word: war
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even in this "glance," we have found that since the end of World War 11, 39 professor have been dismissed or placed on probation, or have resigned; and that there has been legislation in 30 states affecting countless thousands of students and faculty members. We have discovered a total of 40 instances involving professors, students, visiting speakers, and legislative actions, spread over 19 states and the District of Columbia...
William M. Leonard is a case in point Leonard is chairman of the economics department at the Rutgers night school. During the war he served as transportation officer of the War Production Board and in 1945-46 was assistant co-ordinator of planning for Trans-World Airlines...
...which has been sitting in Eliot House all year, got ready to move across the street to Kirkland yesterday. The Deacons did so well in the first day of the two-day House champion track meet that they have undoubtedly clinched the Trophy for the first time since the war...
...story of how Joe Parkson, a lame vet, played by Robert Ryan, stalks a prosperous contractor (Van Heflin) who was his senior officer when their plane was forced down during the war and the crew thrown into a German concentration camp. Parkson and ten others had a tunnel built through which they planned to escape. Frank Enley (Heflin) tried to persuade them not to attempt it but when they defied him Enley went to the Nazis, who agreed to leniency in view of the fact that Enley reported the scheme. The Nazis weren't lenient. Parkson was the only...
...arrangements can be made to foster the exchange of eastern German raw materials and foodstuffs for industrial products of the western zones, it would be a wholesome beginning to a general relaxing of the unofficial dual blockade of the Continent, and that in itself would ease the "cold war" tensions in jittery Europe...