Word: abolish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Donald Bertrand Tresidder, 53, president of Stanford University since 1943; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Businessman Tresidder ran the university without sacrificing academic standards, largely through personal magnetism attracted nearly $8 million in endowments. Enormously popular with the students, "Uncle Don" managed to abolish sororities in 1944 without arousing any personal resentment...
Pioneers. In Denver, the City Council refused to abolish the Park Hill bus route, despite the Denver Tramway Corp.'s complaint: the drivers were always getting lost...
...costs. "Any attempt to raise wage rates faster than the actual increase in hourly productivity," he said, "will only add to further inflation." Rationing and price controls would not increase the supply of goods. They "tend to reduce production" in some lines. The only answer, Wilson declared, was to abolish the 40-hour week, "a heritage of the days of planned scarcity. All of us," said he, "must work longer and harder if we are to achieve the postwar standard of living that we dreamed of during...
...labor. Pumping away with his right arm, he attacked the Marxism of Acción Democrática, called for "social peace" to replace the class struggle. Caldera, whose party has church support (it accuses Acción of being anti-Catholic), plumped for a concordat that would abolish the state's present right to approve church appointments...
Taylor's recommendations: 1) abolish lectures; 2) distribute copies of what the lecturer would have said, and let it be mulled over in small discussion groups; 3) help each student to "find a set of values in which he can believe and by which he can act in this world...