Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...efforts to prevent Mussolini's attack. He smiled and waved when the crowd at the Charlottesville station hailed his arrival. Then, through the streets of quiet Charlottesville, he drove to the Memorial Gymnasium of the University of Virginia, to don his cap amp; gown and face the graduating class to deliver his speech of the tenth day of June...
There is, however, another class for which I feel not the slightest sympathy. Parliament has given us powers to put down fifth-column activities with the strongest hand, and we shall use those powers subject to the supervision and correction of the House without hesitation until we are satisfied and more than satisfied that this malignancy in our midst has been effectually stamped...
College commencements are a flow of soul rather than a feast of reason. Last week they overflowed. The class of 1940 was cast adrift into the narrowing world with more than usual confusion of harangues, warnings, objurgations ringing in its ears...
sang her swing version of Loch Lomond at the Princeton Class of 1930 > reunion, beery old grads gave her one locomotive (Princeton cheer...
...celebrated his 62nd birthday, told the press that he found no objection to "50,000 airplanes for America," felt that "America may be God's last chance to save the world," vowed that he was "no peace-at-any-price man." MRA, he added firmly, was "above party, class, creed, point of view or personal advantage. Like electric light, it goes everywhere." Following the usual Buchmanite technique, MRA headquarters issued a list of current MRA "endorsers."-Among them: President Roosevelt, Admiral Byrd, Secretary of War Woodring, Secretary of the Navy Edison, Speaker Bankhead, David Dubinsky (International Ladies Garment Workers...