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...balmy morning last week, on the second day of their Easter vacation, a mob of pupils gathered before Manhattan's Townsend Harris High School. When they marched in to classes, 850 of the school's 1,200 enrollment were present. Object: to protest against Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's plan to economize by closing their 93-year-old school, alma mater of such celebrities as Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter, Senator Robert F. Wagner, Cinema Tough Guy Edward G. Robinson. Language classes wrote letters in French, Spanish, Italian, Latin, protesting to the Mayor (who understands Italian, French, German, Yiddish...
...than its organization and its organizations are the aims and purposes of the Strike. Despite the predominance among its sponsors and speakers of some of the bitterest and most complete of Harvard isolationists, it has been advertised that the meeting this morning is to be conducted not as a protest against any form of aid to England but rather as a fight against the imminent adoption of convoy service by the U. S. Navy, a move which would be certain to drag this country into the war. With this aim any person desiring peace for the United States must...
...staff know that he intended to represent his country's interests, regardless of Nazi-inspired orders from Copenhagen or Berlin. He was ordered to cooperate with the German charge d'affaires. He did not. When the U.S. seized 39 Danish ships, he did not protest, arranged their transfer to the U.S. A firm anti-Nazi, married to the daughter of a U.S. admiral, he had one trump card to play when the Germans brought pressure on the Danes to force his recall: the U.S. would not recognize any other Danish envoy...
Arguing that "open war" is condemned by the American people as "destructive of our resources, lives, and liberties," Edwards and Miss Pike urged support of the strike as a protest against "the continued movement for military intervention...
...capacity as manager and trainer I wish to protest against your reference in a recent Crimson to Messrs. Souder and Shepardson as "Waddling 'Bull' Souder" and "stilty-legged Dong Shepardson...