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...Sixteen students who oppose the draft and other evidences of "militarist domination" met in Winthrop Junior Common Room to plan the new organization. Fourteen of the students are believers in conscientious objection...
...Republican Party such men as Representatives Hallock, Taber, and Martin. Just as housing and education have suffered in New York, in the nation the result would be the undermining, and possibly the scrapping, of many of the great social and economic agencies built up over the past sixteen years. This is what Mr. Dewey's efficiency would mean in Washington. And this is what makes the Governor's campaign difficult to understand. It is difficult to see where his proposed Department of Social Welfare would fit into such a "house-cleaned" Administration. And it is difficult to reconcile Mr. Dewey...
...Sixteen Freshman intramural touch football teams will warm up today and tomorrow at Soldiers Field for actual league competition which starts Monday...
...brownstone house in New York's then-fashionable Union Square. Her upbringing was strict. The only suitable entertainments , were symphony concerts, the theater (if it was Shakespeare), and an occasional children's party, at one of which she met a neighbor, twelve-year-old Theodore Roosevelt. Sixteen years later, they were married in London. Roosevelt was then a widower of three years, his first wife having died soon after the birth of their only child, Alice...
...acceptance speech to assail the Marshall Plan, assail racism, assail Wall Street and U.S. military leaders. When he finished, his wife, his three small sons and his brother Paul joined him on the stand; like a well rehearsed vaudeville act, they all sang When You Were Sweet Sixteen. The applause swelled, then seemed to roll right out of the park and up to a wan and waning moon as Henry Wallace appeared, riding in an open car, circling the outfield...