Word: wee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winthrop Junior Common Room will be the scene of the second big-time jam session held at Harvard in the last four months when Pee Wee Russell, famous hot clarinetist, Bill Davison, outstanding cornetist, and some other members of Davison's band which is now playing in Boston, come out to play from 8 to 9 o'clock tonight in a program which has been arranged and will be broadcast by the Crimson Network...
...June 5 led to the Government charging him with sedition. Then the Government dropped the charge, as the hottest political potato picked up in years. Still mad, Colonel Drew wrote a 32-page criticism of the commission report. He sent one copy to Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie ("Wee Willie") King, other copies to leaders of the Conservative, Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and Social Credit parties in the House of Commons. A copy also went to the Canadian press, which sent it out to member papers marked "Hold for Release." The release was contingent on Prime Minister King's tabling...
Tonight, or, strictly speaking, in the wee hours of the morning, the siren on top of Widener will let loose with its unearthly moan, street lights all over Cambridge will go out, and Harvard's fourth test blackout will be under way. Defense plants will adjust their blackout shades, all night bean-cries will be darkened, and those solitary night-owls who are still up and about will have to snuff out their midnight...
Everywhere cautious "Wee Willie" King looked, there was trouble. Having held a plebiscite which split Canada's English-and French-speaking peoples, Canada's Prime Minister found he had split his Cabinet almost as dangerously...
...were not annulled, Mackenzie King would face what the Ottawa Journal described as "eruptions in this country" everywhere but in Quebec. If it were annulled, Quebec might erupt. Wee Willie King had to make up his mind...