Word: chowder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard, earnest pacifists were overrun by "The Michael Mullins Chowder & Marching Club," a nebulous society dedicated to confounding all who take themselves seriously. Chowder Marchers goose-stepped through Harvard Square with swastikas, steel helmets, real machine guns. At the end of Peace Day student pacifist leaders loudly called it a complete success. Pacifists had been egged in Chicago, sprinkled in Los Angeles, laughed down at Harvard, ignored throughout much of the South and Midwest. But big turnouts in the East, despite a chilly rain, had raised the number of demonstrators almost to the 150,000 which Peace Day leaders...
Last year the news candidates were organized into the Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Club and swept into the glare of publicity when they opposed the NSL peace platform on Widener steps. Later they had prominent parts to play in the demonstration against the Nazi cruiser, Karlsruhe, in City Square, Charlestown. They had to examine the possibilities of incipent riots which often brewed on Cambridge Streets but never quite reached the proportions of the famous demonstration several years ago. Of course, some rather routine and rather difficult assignments face the Freshman news candidate at any time but the spring possesses...
...However, the danger of Fascism in this country is far from slight, as witness the Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Club and its ally, the Anti...
...When the Chowder Club falled to break up the strike meeting, it went to the opposite ledge flanking Widener and staged a mock meeting. In between was massed the throng of 2,000. On one side heads inclined faithfully in the direction of the pacifists. On the other side several hundred hands were raised in a fascist salute. Today this is only fascist tomfoolery. Tomorrow it will be fascism in earnest...
Like their colleagues in Germany all their canons of chivalry were abandoned when dealing with pacifists and radicals. An instructor's wife climbed on the ledge to speak for the strikers. The Chowder Club forced her to turn her face so that her profile could be snapped, and generally manhandled her, yelling "We Want Love." It took a flying wedge of strikers to seatter them...