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...argument became more heated when Larry Kinnard, a black personnel officer hired this fall, came into the room. He cut off several white questioners-saying "let me talk to the sister"-and said that his job was to "watch out for black people" in the personnel office...
Alvin T. Thompson, president of the Cambridge NAACP, said Thursday he had nothing against Larry E. Kinnard, the black from Cincinnati hash for the job, but he felt there "ought to be enough people in Cambridge and Boston to find someone locally for the post...
Harvard personnel director John B. Butler replied that "Our recruiting effort lasted many months and included many local candidates. We did not find one who satisfied our requirements as exceptionally as Mr. Kinnard does. They [the NAACP] seem to say that we ruled out local people and went out to the foothills of Cincinnali to find someone. This is not the case...
...Kinnard, who has run similar recruiting efforts in Cincinnati said he did not feel that being from out of the area would hamper his ability to recruit in Boston and Cambridge...
...Kinnard said that the workers would come from both Cambridge and Boston. Recruiting will be done through agencies already established, like ABCD and the Workers' Defense League...