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Famous for the organized defense against all infringements on basic Constitutional liberties the CLU was instrumental last July in obtaining withdrawal of the Cambridge City Manager's order preventing the Liberal Union from distributing pro-OPA leaflets from a booth in the Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Civil Liberties Expert Will Cite Violations at HLU Meeting Tonight | 12/12/1946 | See Source »

Speakers on the agenda include Harold Robinson, of the New England Regional Council, National Housing Agency; Justin Feldman, national director of Veteran affairs of AVC; representatives of Governor Tobin and the OPA; and an as yet unnamed member of the University's Economics faculty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bradford Backs AVC Mass Rally On Rent Control | 12/11/1946 | See Source »

...week's end the White House was still significantly silent. Washington dopesters guessed what the answer would be: to sweep the emergency housing program into the new catch-all agency for the ragtag ends of CPA and OPA. That would leave Wilson Wyatt standing in the rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: A Huff & Puff | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

Another difficulty--and one in which University Hall has interested itself--is the state of the Advocate building. After the magazine folded, the grey Bow Street building was rented, in deference to the war-time housing shortage, in apartment lots to both married and unmarried tanants. Stringent OPA restrictions forbid the eviction of otherwise homeless tenants, and the University would probably veto the occupancy by students of a mixed-tenancy building...

Author: By R. SCOT Leavitt, | Title: Meeting Tonight May Decide Fate Of 'Advocate,' Defunct Since 1943 | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...topmost was OPA's Porter, whose resignation was on the President's desk, and who expected his release this week. After so much pushing around, Price-Holder Porter wanted a long rest, and no thoughts of jobs in the immediate future-even if they included an offer of the Presidency of Broadcast Music, Inc., the rival to A.S.C.A.P...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Nobody's Baby | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

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