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...nominees you have suggested that the names of the nominating committee be revealed. To assure the voting members of our class an opportunity for discriminating judgment I further suggest that relevant information about the candidates be published at the discretion of the nominating committee. Important qualifications should include geographical background and achievement at Harvard. If a candidate has a claim to distinction, we want to know. We deserve a guarantee of responsible and capable leadership. Frank Elliott...
Styled by Republicans as "...an insult to the Australians..." the nomination of Edward J. Flynn as United States Minister to Australia has implications far more serious than mere inter-party knife-throwing. Lacking both the background and the training necessary for delicate diplomacy, Flynn owes his appointment to peculiar political circumstances. These circumstances make him much less than satisfactory to the Democratic Party of which he is chairman. But they do little to make him the ideal successor of the current minister, Nelson Johnson, and they may well serve to disrupt long-sought unity at home and abroad...
...DATE THAN HAVE ANY OF THE ARMED SERVICES AND THEY KNOW IT. THESE "DRAFT DODGERS" ARE VOLUNTEERING FOR AS TEDIOUS, AS HAZARDOUS AND AS ESSENTIAL A DUTY AS THERE IS IN THE WHOLE WAR PROGRAM. THESE "PROFITEERS" COULD MAKE MORE MONEY IN DETROIT OR GARY OR CLEVELAND FROM THE BACKGROUND OF THEIR OWN HOMES WITH THE COMFORT AND PLEASURES OF PRIVATE LIFE THAN THEY WILL MAKE ON THE LONG, COLD VOYAGES TO THE ARCTIC OR RUNNING THE GANTLET OF "BOMB ALLEY." THE "ROUGH AND RAMBUNCTIOUS . . . 13-WEEK TRAINEES" SEEM TO ME, AND I HAVE HAD OVER 40 YEARS EXPERIENCE...
...conversations that in mid-December, 1941, James Healy (at the time a Teaching Fellow in Economics and now with the War Labor Board) was sent on an extensive field trip to talk with union heads in Philadelphia, Washington, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Detroit, Cleveland, Akron, and other cities. He also gathered background material on scores of strikes, some routine, some spectacular, and including the nationally publicized Allis-Chalmers layoff of defense production workers in 1941. At a few points no interest was shown, but most of the unions expressed their willingness to cooperate. Not until the ground had been fully prepared through...
...Trade Union Fellows are men who, because of their backgrounds, are a strikingly new feature in the University scene. In spite of their unique background and, perhaps, because of it, the men have succeeded in finding their place in the University picture as vital assets in the student body. Three of the Fellows have brought their wives to Cambridge and one lives in Boston. The other nine have become familiar figures around the Houses and across the Charles. Two make their homes in Adams, two in Dunster, and five in the Business School dormitories...