Word: award
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writing The Thibaults, taciturn, 58-year-old Roger Martin du Card, then almost unknown, won the 1937 Nobel surprise. With this much of his masterwork before them, U. S. readers may well feel that the award was justified...
Working directly under the executives of the department, the winners of the award will be given an opportunity to learn the process of administration without going through the subordinate positions of the Civil Service. The award is made following interviews with the leading men in the field of the Social Sciences on the basis of scholarship and personality...
Arthur N. Holcombe '06, Professor of Government expressed the opinion that the award was one of the really constructive ways of training administrators and hoped that it would expand to include more ranking students in the near future...
...other rearmament jokers flustered the War Department last week: 1) Under an amendment sponsored by "Dear Alben" Barkley for C.I.O., a department head may not award any contracts for national defense to bidders whom he finds guilty of unfair labor practices. 2) New Hampshire's Republican Charles William Tobey got the Senate to limit profits on Army aircraft contracts to 10% (as in the Navy, where a similar limitation has been in effect since...
Despite the efforts of Gary Cooper and Merle Oberon, and despite photography which won the Academy Award, "The Cowboy and the Lady" taken as a whole is only mediocre. A ludicrous plot with an unconvincing combination of humorous and serious elements prevents the film from being more than fairly good entertainment...