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...sixty members attending the discussion voted to abandon the policy of circulating petitions to arouse student sentiment, a method widely used during the fall with mediocre results, in favor of direct lobbying and testimony before legislative committees. Outstanding success of the petitions distributed throughout the University was a resolution condemning the tactics used by the Rankin Committee against Professor Harlow Shapley, which was signed by 1200 students and faculty members...
...review of the progress of U.S. foreign relations in a year when U.S. policy-and the hopes of lasting peace itself-emerged from the shadows of confusions and doubts. Grave difficulties, he said, had arisen at the very outset of efforts to make a peace, "but we refused to abandon the principles for which our country stands. And we served notice that we would not retreat to a policy of isolation...
Larreta. An interesting-and heartening-conflict of views on "sovereignty" v. "intervention" arose between Uruguay's Foreign Minister Eduardo Rodriguez Larreta and Sumner Welles, former U.S. Under Secretary of State. It was Larreta who urged that small nations, in the interests of a democratic Pan-American community, abandon their fears of U.S. intervention, and Welles who counseled restraint in interfering with the internal affairs of small nations. Said Larreta...
Caniff was the first cartoonist who ever left Joe Patterson, though not the first to abandon his brain children.* Patterson and Caniff never spoke or met, after Caniff joined Field. (In Patterson's Daily News, and in most of the other 310 papers that print Terry, the strip was being drawn last week by George Wunder. Wunder, like Caniff-whom he has never met-is a left-handed graduate of the A.P. Judging by his first week, his drawing was a reasonable facsimile of Caniff's, but his dialogue was a long way below...
Casting and technical difficulties have forced the Dramatic Club to abandon its plans for producing Thomas Wolfe's "Mannerhouse," according to Paul S. Burggraf '48, H.D.C. President, who also said yesterday that the choice of an alternate spring play will be announced shortly...