Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Part of the work of the recently created Bureau of Supervisors will be to conduct a course in Remedial Reading which will be given the first time this Fall to improve and speed up the reading habits of a limited number of Freshmen, it was learned yesterday...
...boats may have had orders to prey like gentlemen, the Athenia's destroyer was a Nazi hothead who could not control his trigger finger. Suspicion that a sharp order to other U-boat captains may have been issued by Berlin was aroused by the contrasting conduct of a captain who, last week, sank the British sugar freighter Olivegrove, 200 miles southwest of Bantry, Ireland. This captain ordered the freighter to heave to (by shots over her bow), and to disembark her men in lifeboats. He then lay to, checked the castaways' compass, offered them a tow toward...
Shadow. But the wheels of propaganda were beginning to buzz in their various ways last week as two novelists and a Scottish lawyer fought to reach the eyes and ears of the world with the best cases they could make for the conduct of their warring countries. One novelist was Paul Joseph Goebbels, author (at 24) of Michael, probably as bad a book as has ever been published, and operator (at 41) of the most powerful, most smoothly organized publicity machine the world has ever seen...
...commodities which he has long tried to dispose of. At week's end, after columnists and editorial writers had failed to shout down the buying rush, he slouched up to the microphone and over a nationwide network called a halt: "Since last Monday," he said, "housewives have been conducting runs on grocery stores in the same manner as depositors used to conduct runs on banks...
...sworn it would not be they. Their basic strategy was to hold their West Wall (Siegfried or Limes Line) from the Ruhr to the Alps. Allied strategy was to bring such pressure as would sap strength from the German drive into Poland. General understanding was that the French would conduct all operations by land, with the infantry reinforced at first only by a few mechanized British divisions. The British would take the lead...