Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First U.S. institution of higher learning to definitely abolish the torture and absurdities of fraternity Hell. Week with an educational program designed to provide "a conference of the constructive phase of fraternity life serving as a pre-initiation training for pledges." Bit-wigs of many national fraternities and many colleges and universities were on hand to watch his experiment and to voice their approval after the final session. Here COLLEGIATE DIGEST presents exclusive photos of important phases of the conferences...
...changed his tack, orated: "It has been suggested that I tax bachelors, bicycles, cats, dogs, debutantes, fiction, loudspeakers and other things. . . . None of these things is of any use to me." His audience tittered nervously, and shrewd Neville Chamberlain followed up with the handsome announcement that he proposed to abolish the "trousers tax" of 15 shillings a year, which every Briton who employs a manservant has hitherto had to pay. After this he got down to brass tacks and his pop-eyed listeners learned how the British Government proposes to pay for its five-year $7,500,000,000 rearmament...
...France last week. Hotel, restaurant and cafe workers, still waiting to be included in the 40-hour setup, staged a noisy demonstration to protest against employers who refuse to grant shorter working hours during the impending tourist season. To appease them the French Government had already been obliged to abolish the Droit de Tab-lier ("Right of the Apron"), the "privilege" of waiters, hat-checkers, washroom attendants, doorkeepers to pay their employers for allowing them to work for tips. In some swank Paris cafés this has cost waiters as much as 100 francs ($4.43) a week. Bricklayers, plumbers...
...Russia's case. The Premier preferred not to resort to highhandedness, yet it was crystal-clear to the delegates that he had won his battle before he started. The nub of the discussion was whether or not Egypt would be willing to abolish capitulations by slow degrees...
...Chapel ("an old sow lying on its back") the sight depressed him. reminded him of "an old comb lacking half its teeth." Manhattanites struck him as "uncomfortable, nervous, harassed, brutal, sullen, dehumanized." The U. S. method of solving social problems roused his scorn: "Folks get drunk on alcohol? Easy: abolish alcohol. . . . Dour dramas corrupted Sweet Sixteen? Easy: censor the drama. Crazy communists upset bedtime story mood of bourgeois gentlemen? Easy: jail 'em and let the Supreme Court of the U. S. outlaw their nonsense." The press so disgusted him that he confined his reading to the sports page...