Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brash General Hugh Samuel Johnson used to settle labor difficulties by locking the employes' representatives in one room, employers in another, himself shuttling back and forth. If such could be called Round Table Conferences, then a Round Table Conference was held in London last week-on the Palestine question...
Later on, M. Bonnet set out to sabotage the Daladier fight talk. In an "off-the-record" lecture to nine French political reporters, some well-known in Paris as tipsters for foreign embassies, the Foreign Minister censured the French press for its treatment of the "Italian question," warned that it would bring Italian bombs "on our heads" and declared, in effect, that there was much to be said for the Italian claims to Tunisia, Corsica, Djibouti, the Suez Canal...
...seems likely that the active participation of Harvard in the campaign against this law might have changed defeat into victory. That the university can advance arguments to justify its decision to play a passive role in the struggle for repeal this year is undoubtedly true. For there is some question as to whether this oath does really endanger civil liberties. And, even if the law is a menace to intellectual freedom, it may not be wise for Harvard to stir once more local antagonism by advocating its repeal...
...answer to this question is almost inherent in the statement of the problem. No matter how harmless the law may read, the Teachers' Oath does actually qualify liberty of thought and speech. The law may not now infringe upon the freedom of the university, but that it may do so in the near future is quite conceivable. Either the present Act may expand in scope or it may simply be the wedge for more stringent laws. Obviously, in contrast to such a threat, any considerations of "town-gown" relations are insignificant. Harvard must again employ all its influence and prestige...
...action before is grappling. He was a star on his Freshman team and should be in a position to do well. Bill Tyng, who replaces Pete Illman against Columbia's Weldon Booth in the 155 pound class is on the other hand very little experienced. He presents the greatest question mark on the team...