Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief debater against conscription was neutral Eire's gaunt Prime Minister Eamon de Valera. Said he to a jammed session of the Dail Eireann: "The six counties [of Northern Ireland] are a part of Ireland. . . . No act of Parliament can alter this fact. In the six northern counties there are more than a third of the population who have vehemently protested against being cut off from the main body of the nation, who were so cut off against their own will and against the will of the majority of the whole Irish people. It would be an outrage...
Finally agreed upon was an arrangement by which Cuba would get a single clear channel, Mexico five, Canada six, the U. S. 43. Also agreed upon was a frequency shake-up by which more than 1,000 stations would alter their wave lengths. This week these changes go into effect. It is the greatest broadcasting transformation in the history of radio...
...Frank Capra & Writer Robert Riskin have wowed the public with several fairly intimate little pictures including It Happened One Night and You Can't Take It With You. They have also wowed the public with whoppers: Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, Lost Horizon. Director Capra, working without his Alter Ego Riskin, wowed the public with the heroic scale of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. The bigger these pictures have gotten, the simpler have been their basic sentiments. The vast Tibetan spaces of Lost Horizon enclosed the theme BE KIND (Capra's own description). Mr. Deeds went to town...
Broad changes in the Biology Department, designed to liberalize the rules for concentrators and to rearrange and alter some of the courses, are now being considered by the Department and Faculty, it was learned last night. These changes would take effect beginning with the Class...
...Business School views the present defense emergency as the forerunner of a "long-time fundamental change in the social background of business," and is prepared to alter its curriculum accordingly, Dean Wallace B. Donham announced today in his annual report...