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Muttering "keep quiet, keep moving" to prevent the provocations of American Firsters from getting under their skin, a Fight for Freedom Committee picket line paraded up and down in front of Mechanics Hall for several hours Saturday night...
There are a few other Sophs you might tab, such as the picket-runners Billings, Tobin and Messer, and the running guard, "Spike" Sisson, and Bud Cushing, a whale of a center as Syracuse will attest, and the big tackle, Anderson. But I'm just about running to the end of my list...
After November 8 attention turned back to England. Professors Elliott and McLaughlin were the center of the most prominent disturbance when they addressed a meeting of one of the new organizations, the Committee for Military Intervention. The peace groups combined to form a picket line around Emerson Hall where the meeting was to be held early in December and the interventionists formed a picket line to break the peace picket line. There was no actual disturbance except for a rendition of "There'll Always Be an England" by a group of Cambridge High School youths...
...Said the picket: "I have nine sons. Seven of them are eligible for the draft, and some of them have been taken. I will give every one of my sons gladly to defend this country but I will not give one of them to fight a war for another nation...
...open for business-but there was no business. Each night Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt and his aides drove 20 miles northeast of threatened Moscow to the emergency quarters appropriately named "The Refuge," on a high bluff overlooking the roaring Klyasma River. There, on an estate surrounded by a high picket fence, in a comfortable, plain, seven-room house, the U.S. Diplomatic and Consular representatives prepared to guard the interests of the U.S. in one-sixth of the earth's surface. They found themselves almost as isolated as the pioneers of the old West, in their stockades in Indian territory...