Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doing two hours' honest scrubbing in the skyscraper Cathedral of Learning five nights a week) to pay their tuition fees, thus leaving $66 a semester (about $15 a month) for board & room, books and spending money. The freshmen rebelled...
Having profanely put Mr. Bridges in his place, John L. Lewis informed the delegates that their constitution was a democratic document, ordered them to adopt it forthwith. They did. Its chief provisions gave each of C. I. O.'s 41 affiliates a member of the international executive board, empowered that board to investigate any "situation"' in any affiliate but left punitive action against member unions to annual or special C. I. O. conventions...
...except any publisher˜not a single one!" One Piece. To keep C.I.O.'s 41 national unions, 675 locals and 3,787,877 claimed members all in one piece, John Lewis depends upon: 1) his prestige; 2) the C.I.O. constitution, which vests large powers in his executive board; 3) the men whom he chooses to help him run his congress. Last week he and the convention concluded five busy days in the gilded convention hall of Pittsburgh's ornate Grotto Temple by choosing the following: President˜John Llewellyn Lewis...
Three years ago the Rockefeller General Education Board gave $500,000 for this study because New York illustrates the best and worst points in U. S. education, has big city systems and many rural schools. A Board of Regents survey committee, headed by Owen D. Young, picked tall, spectacled Luther Halsey Gulick to make the survey...
Crimson--My, but you people are simple. Our humorous magazines never stay on the streets for more than half an hour. Every issue they arrest the board entire of the Lampoon...