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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was momentary confusion; Malik's letter was written in Russian. Aides found a translator. Finally, Jessup got on the telephone. He passed the word to Cadogan and Chauvel that Malik had agreed to meet with them. The first meeting of Four Power spokesmen since last winter's fruitless discussions in Geneva on the subject of the Berlin blockade was set for 12:30 the next...
...Truman did not think much of such a proposition. But the House strategy was up to Sam, Harry Truman added. Labor leaders also gagged at the idea of accepting the hated injunction. Nevertheless, they quietly passed the word to their friends in Congress to support Sam's substitute. They were even ready to accept the injunction if they could get rid of most of the Taft-Hartley Act. That is, the majority of them were. John Lewis, who had had to pay through the nose for defying injunctions, was dead set against any compromise...
...emotion he may feel is kept well under control, save for an occasional sharp word to a bungling manager, or a blast of choice invective to some motorboat jockey who wanders out on the course just before starting time, kicking up waves in the path of the crews...
Radcliffe's Young Progressives' President, Wilhelmina Davis '52, yesterday claimed that her organization, which lost its charter at the last Student Council session, had received no word of the deadline for rechartering and had every intention of remaining an Annex club...
...Church on its heels, the old building sending back echoes of protest. Randall Thompson's "Tarantella," a sultry Basque setting, was particularly strong in diction and attack, something for which the Club is famous. Singing out-doors is a real test of such polish: Tuesday's audience heard every word. The concert ended with four choruses from "Patience," and afterwards members of the University joined the Glee Club on the steps to sing football songs. Merriment prevailed, and the spring counterpart of the football rallies had once more got off to rollicking start...