Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sixth place in the Junior vote will reduce the number of 1940 members appointed by the new board from five to four, the present chairman, Richard H. Sullivan '39, said last night. Although the Constitution does not provide for the emergency, the Council last night used "executive discretion which we hope will be acceptable to the Class...
...have thrown money about in the cafes geisha houses, bars and dance halls of Shanghai, the yen's fall meant that gaiety would become more expensive. Japanese officials began asking their nationals not to spend their yen in the International Settlement and the Japanese-sponsored Asia Development Board began a "thrift" campaign to cut down on "entertainment...
Significant to the Soviet regime is that Stalin has chosen the Supreme Council as his sounding board. Since 1930 he has spoken often: to Communist Party Congresses, to graduates of the Red Army academies, to the public on the opening of the Moscow subway. In dry, prosaic, unemotional speeches, packed with phrases like "the idiotic disease of political carelessness," and with schoolteacherish questions and answers ("What is the essence of this attitude? The essence of this attitude is. . . .") Stalin has lectured Young Communists, delegates of the Third International, Stakhanovites, collective farmers, shock troopers, school children. But this is his first...
...Last week RKO, still involved in a five-year-old reorganization, acquired a new board chairman, Richard Cunningham Patterson Jr., who has announced his resignation as Assistant Secretary of Commerce...
...annual convention in St. Louis and balked. The convention adopted a resolution declaring that it was "unmistakably and emphatically opposed" to all provisions of the Wagner Bill. The Bureau of Legal Medicine denounced it for unnecessarily expanding the work of the U. S. Public Health Service and Social Security Board, for "extreme vagueness [in spending] vast sums of money" and the "great powers conferred on certain Federal officers in the control of the spending," and a special committee of the House of Delegates met in camera for three days, emerged with a document listing 22 objections to the Wagner Plan...