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There are many who believe that the possible service revision is no more than a threat to allay further demands by the University Employees' Representative Association. But the proposal has been given serious consideration in House as well as administrative circles. M.I.T.'s system--with paid students cleaning every day and making beds once a week--has received favorable comment at Harvard for the past six months...
Business, said Sawyer, should do things for the benefit of the public-not just talk about them-and allay the "belief, in some cases justified, that every suggestion for improvement in the lives or well-being of our people has met the instant and vigorous opposition of business." It should explain the "relationship of capitalism" to daily life. The American business system "is inseparable from the texture and pattern of our civilization," said he. In selling itself, business must convince the millions of employees that "business is on their side...
George Woodbury, former Harvard anthropologist, yesterday reported "very satisfactory response" to an appeal for donations towards a $20,000 fund for Dr. Hermann N. Sander. The fund is being collected in order to allay the trial expenses of Dr. Sander, who has been charged with "mercy murder...
...hilltops around Pretoria, frantic rumors had swept the wretched native settlements that the white men were bent on a bloody sequel to the battle of Blood River, that they would go forth on Dingaan's day to slay black men, women & children. The government broadcast special messages to allay their fears...
...merely shaken by eating overripe watermelon and beer. In Johnson City, Tenn., State Alcohol Tax Agent Jess C. Ford, charged with drunken driving and possession of liquor, explained that it was all in the line of duty: he took a drink at a bootlegger's only to allay suspicion, carried the bottle with him to further the deception...