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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poke around beneath the facts and to emerge with some dubious interpretations. It is necessary to attribute to Mr. Greene the most blatant sort of insincerity. At the very least, it requires imputing to him a certain amount of unconscious hypocrisy--an over-readiness to squirm out of a previous decision in Mr. Browder's favor. Only by reading between the lines can the bogey of suppression be conjured...
...Greene was entirely justified in raising the question of good taste. But a sounder course of action for him would have been to protest on this ground and to suggest that the project be abandoned, but finally to abide by his previous commitment if the John Reed sponsors still wished it. The University could still remove itself from a compromising position by regrinding to Mr. Browder his permit to speak in the New Lecture Hall. Failing in that, Harvard will have to struggle as best it can against unjustified charges of reaction...
...starving himself if he so desire. . . . The extreme punishments to which he may be subjected are rigorous imprisonment for a term of not longer than 15 years or death. . . . The provisions and principles embodied in this declaration shall be more fully defined in a legal code. ... It incorporates all previous declarations of human right. Henceforth it is the fundamental law for mankind throughout the whole world...
...Font's sheeny, much-publicized nylon hosiery went on sale at $1.15, $1.25, $1.35 (for different gauges), sold quickly when salesgirls claimed that one pair of them would outwear four of silk, that they would dry in ten minutes when washed. As material for full-fashioned hose a previous silk substitute, rayon, was a lame competitor to silk but nylon and its brother synthetics now in prospect may be another story. For silk's best defense against nylon & company is that decent silk stockings can be sold for 79? when the price of raw silk is below...
...Previous appeals, he maintained, have always been addressed to the Administration itself, and thus "got nowhere." As an example of this, Ross cited the case of the English concentrators' petition last June, which he said was rejected by President Conant. The Committee hopes that some more definite action may result from putting the protest before the Corporation...