Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...central figures are the large Joad family, Oklahoma sharecroppers, who lose their 40-acre farm to the bankers, sell their possessions for $18 to gyp agents, buy an ancient jalopy for $75 from racketeers, head out on Highway 66 for the land of plenty promised in a come-on California handbill. With them - the 13th passenger -goes lanky, philosophizing Preacher Casy, hillbilly Moses turned rustic socialist. Hero of the Joads is tall, homely son Tom, a paroled convict. Heroine is Ma Joad, strong, patient, dreaming of "a white house with oranges growin' around...
...might be well, in the second place, to find a means of forcing each Master to accept the given criteria. The Central Committee should require strict observance of the cross-section--intellectual, social, racial, and financial. Although this is at the present time fairly closely approximated, there are a few striking deviations, and one House in particular has violated the spirit of the crosssection. Much can be said for the development of House individuality and character, but this can be fostered on the basis of a cross-section as well as on that of a clique...
...CENTRAL COMMITTEE...
When necessary, appointments for members of the Central Committee must be made in advance in the office of he Secretary for Houses, 4 University Hall. It is NOT necessary to make appointments in advance for the various House Representatives...
When necessary, appointments for members of the Central Committee must be made in advance in the office of the Secretary for Houses, 4 University Hall. It is NOT necessary to make appointments in advance for the various House Representatives...