Word: disbanded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Well aware that Morocco needs French capital, Mohammed V reacted with typically shrewd sense. He appointed 27-year-old Prince Moulay Hassan commander of the Royal Moroccan Army (trained and equipped by the French), and sent him out to disband the Liberation Army by swearing its men into the Sultan's own force. Steely-nerved Moulay Hassan had soon sworn in some 5,000 irregulars, sent the rest home except for some holdouts mostly in the deep south. The Sultan himself toured all Morocco, traveling in a huge caravan and camping in tents on the plains. Talking to crowds...
...executive board of the Harvard Dramatic Club met yesterday afternoon and defeated a motion to disband the organization. The movement to disband was made public Tuesday by the Club president, David E. Green...
...proposal to disband outright was reportedly dismissed without much consideration. As one board member said, "it looked pretty silly when we actually sat down and started to talk about it." The board then discussed a move to suspend operations temporarily; but this, too, was voted down...
Green cited Dean's office hostility as the major cause of the movement to disband. He stated that this attitude, combined with certain "financial considerations," has made it impossible for the HDC to operate on the large scale proper for a college wide organization...
Green admitted that it would probably be necessary for the Club to go into bankruptcy if it did disband, for its present debts total $2000, including the outlay on the impending production of Shaw's Doctor's Dilemma. He estimated that the receipts from this play, plus a consequent sale on assets, estimated at $700, would remove most of this debt...