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...these national issues he will be directly opposed by Fitzgerald, who has been endorsed by the C.I.O. and the A.F.L. Fitzgerald, a former President of the Boston City Council and former acting mayor of Boston, is trying to pull Boston back into the Democratic column. He is campaigning for large federal education bill providing free lunches, medical aid, and transportation for sectarian schools; Saltonstall opposed this provision. In their foreign policy the two men are fairly close. Both support full appropriations for the Marshall Plan, and both favor putting teeth in the United Nations. Fitzgerald makes two specific proposals...
Details are not yet available on this project. Somebody still has to figure how to pull students out of DP camps, how to get them across the ocean, how to support them in this country. But the State Department has told an NSA official that it likes the idea, and if NSA can now interest colleges in a feasible project, the DP plan may somehow, someday succeed...
...been summoned by an indignant neighbor who had finally decided to inform the authorities of the goings-on at Frau Lehrte's). The Russian jerked himself erect. Forgetting his motorcycle, he walked off in the direction of the Soviet zone. But when he saw a second U.S. jeep pull up, he ducked behind a tree, raised his rifle and fired four quick shots. German and U.S. police flung themselves behind the parked cars; the Russian slipped away. A German policeman, wounded in the leg, lay on his back before Frau Lehrte's house. Germans clustered around...
...early trains are coaches exclusively, with the fare of $24.16 round trip. The late train has pull man coaches and the fare is $40.12 round trip...
...criterion in this case should be only: How useful is the book to the class? Two excellent reports on class affairs were filed by the Council last year. Both show a way to pull together the fragments of classes left by the war. And both look to a future unity in each class, a unity that even prewar days may not have seen. In the new kind of class that is envisioned, the Council should see if there is a place for a Red Book. On this basis should it make up its mind...