Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Communist pamphlets were confiscated at Harvard two weeks ago, "The New York Times" stated triumphantly that authorities were beginning a quiet and efficient drive against "red" groups in the University. The story turned out to be almost completely false. Just a few days later when unimpeachable sources reported that a new "ism"-- the Yale Imperialist Association--had long been burrowing beneath the Yale Campus, "The Times" refused to touch it. Only the courageous "Yale News" dared print that undergraduates "tossed off their vodka, smashed their glasses against the wall, and pledged their White Russian honor to the Romanoffs...
...enveloped Yale is apparent from the idealistic blood-oath taken by each of the members "testifying to his resolution of chastity and obedience until a Romanoff sits again on the Russian throne." The consequences of such a promise in any average American community, or even to New York debutantes, is greater than the Dies Committee itself could imagine. Of all the great oaths in history, none have gone so far. Even the Ten Commandments included only "obedience." What means the revolutionists will use to impose "chastity" is beyond the wildest imagination. Already they seem to have made one step towards...
Donald C. Johnson of Buffalo, New York, and Riverside High School; Thayer Hall...
Donald N. McNicol of Flushing, New York, and Flushing High School; Thayer Hall and Freshman football captain...
George Putnam of New York and Groton School; Matthews Hall...