Word: action
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most Cambridge businessmen aren't especially alarmed. There are a number of factors which seemingly discount the Lever action. And if there is any pronounced economic slump in Cambridge, only small retail merchants, whose sales have been dropping, will admit...
...Council last night also approved the charter of the Harvard Committee for the Hoover Report, a group of students organizing to "acquaint the Harvard community with the purpose of the Hoover Report." In a similar action, the Council unanimously decided to allow the Russian Club to change its name to the Slavic Society...
Roger B. Hunt '52 received the remaining $35 owed him by Armand J. Fournier, local furniture dealer, yesterday. Hunt had ordered and paid $45 for a refrigerator that Fournier allegedly failed to deliver, and had threatened court action to regain his money...
...told me that I would be amazed at the number of so-called rugged industrialists, business leaders, who trooped to him to try to get the Department of Commerce to use its influence in their behalf against their competitors. If we, as businessmen, believe in reasonable liberty of action for management, we must not ourselves seek in private the things we decry in public...
...student engineer was called off to World War I as a private. At the front, he decorated his dugout with flowered wallpaper, draperies and tufted pillows. He designed himself a new pair of pants because the government-issue pants were badly cut ("I enjoyed going into action well-dressed"). After four years of war−during which he was burned severely by mustard gas−he came out a captain, with a swatch of ribbons on his chest but no money in his pockets. His older brother Georges, a doctor in Manhattan, urged Raymond to join him. At 26, still...