Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first of four radio debates this month, the Debating Council takes the negative against Brown University this afternoon on the question: "Resolved, That Congress should adopt a regional power program embodying the basic principles...
...mediation & arbitration of maritime labor disputes is a curtailment of the union's right to strike. Arbitration of minor controversies arising out of signed contracts and prohibition of strikes & lockouts (during the duration of the contracts) is now accepted in all N. M. U. agreements. But in settling basic issues like wages, hours and working conditions, the union wants free and untrammeled negotiation. Therefore, to the council, restrictive legislation is a device of the shipowners, and Mr. Kennedy is their "staunch lobbyist...
...Jefferson's ideal must be achieved . . . our children will see what the world has never witnessed: a nation in which basic education is truly universal and careers are open to the talented drawn from every class and section of the land...
...apparent, but the speech was of the same character as the documents mentioned above. The ideas it embodied were excellent, but the wording was deplorable. President Conant seems aware that this is a democracy, but oblivious of the limitations inherent in a democracy. Until that golden Tomorrow, when "basic education is truly universal," the President will have to use words of two syllables or bear the consequences, for publicity, build-up, ballyhoo, and general "talking down" are essential to putting a point across to the general public...
...certificates would be awarded only if the candidate: 1) graduated from a school approved by the A. M. A.; 2) spent at least one year as interne in an approved hospital; 3) interned three more years in specialized clinics, dispensaries, hospitals or laboratories; 4) passed an examination in the basic medical sciences of a specialty, as well as in the clinical, laboratory and public health aspects; and 5) spent at least two more years in study or practice. In other words, after 1940 it was to take a man five years to become a doctor of medicine and five more...