Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Everybody Satisfied. Only two M.P.s spoke against the Emergency Powers Defense Bill, extremist Laborite David Kirkwood and Communist William Gallacher, who called it "deliberate attempt on the part of the ruling class to conquer the working class." Cracked back orthodox Laborite David Gilbert Logan at Red Willie, "It is about time that a voice like yours was silenced under Emergency Powers." Liberal Sir Richard Acland said he specifically hoped to see the Government "sending to the homes of people like myself and taking away valuable picture's, such as portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds and other Old Masters...
...Harvard, members of a student "Committee for the Recognition of Classroom Generals" picketed (in gas masks) a class of interventionist History Teacher Paul P. Cram, sent tin soldiers and armchair professorial citations to five other professors. Meanwhile 34 members of the class of '17 sent a letter to the Crimson deploring undergraduate pacifism...
...keyed up to catch the overtones of World War II, and toned down to meet the objections of censors. Waterloo Bridge is no longer a tale of a shy Canadian soldier who falls in love with a shy London trull. It is the story of a good-looking, upper-class British officer (Robert Taylor) who, during an air raid, conceives an undying passion for a good-looking ballerina (Vivien Leigh). After causing her to lose her job, he has to go off to the war before he can marry her. The young lady turns to prostitution...
Most of Dr. Ziuf's letter is not pertinent to the issue of class-room abuse. His attack on teachers who show themselves to be pro-Ally is merely a part of his larger attack on the "Benedict Arnolds." The latter phrase refers, in his letter, to "the unpaid efforts of thousands of Americans to conduct pro-Ally propaganda." In effect, anyone who supports a policy of aid to the Allies in the present juncture is a traitor. The use of this epithet invites attention to Dr. Zipf's remarks on "emotional involvement...
...drive will be continued this week, with special emphasis placed on collections from the Houses and in the Freshman Union. The response from the Freshman class has been disappointing, the committee said...