Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reorganization, Representatives with their ears to the ground, sensing that the President's plan for reorganizing the executive branch of the Government, was one of. his few unpopular proposals (see p. 14), shelved it, went home without doing or attempting to do anything about...
Popular Economics Instructors John Raymond Walsh and Alan Richardson Sweezy were fired (given two-year concluding appointments) more than a year ago. Because they were leaders of the university's branch of the American Federation of Teachers, even conservative facultymen feared their dismissal was a blow aimed at academic freedom, and they petitioned for an investigation. Thereupon, President James Bryant Conant appointed a committee of nine, including Law Professor Felix Frankfurter, Astronomer Harlow Shapley...
...first to have several assistants, and he it was who made physical education compulsory for Freshmen and started routine physical examinations. Offices of the department were then in Sever Hall, but with the appointment of Dr. Alfred Worcester in 1924, Wadsworth House became the department's headquarters, and two branch offices were set up. Dr. Worcester inaugurated such basic operations of the department as the Employees' Clinic, as well as the Dental and Eye Clinics...
This time Mrs. Norton was able to keep the bill from death by amendment. The few minor amendments adopted exempted from the provisions of the bill agricultural workers, employes of any branch of the fishing industry, of weekly or semiweekly country newspapers with circulations of 3,000 or less. California's Charles Kramer relieved his colleagues' tension for a moment by offering an amendment exempting child actors from the child labor provisions. Dubbed the Shirley Temple Amendment, it was promptly adopted. But the tension returned as the bill approached its real test, and then as the first fateful...
First act of the new Cabinet was to order more troops to China. Soldiers left Japan last week in the largest number since the initial shipments in September. Army officers roamed the streets commandeering commercial trucks. One U. S. automobile branch agency was given a rush order for 1,800 machines. Next step observers last week believed imminent was the complete application of the National Mobilization Act, which would place the nation on full wartime footing, give the army virtual control over industry and all phases of national life...