Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the showdown came. Cocky, cigar-chewing Joe Stack, ousted by Curran as vice president last April, made his own appeal for reinstatement. Sure, said Stack, he was a Communist Party member, but that fact would never interfere with his conduct of N.M.U. business. Replied Joe Curran, who likes to talk about himself in the third person: ";Curran and Stack cannot work in the same office." When the vote was taken, it was a narrow squeak: the ouster was upheld 353 to 351. Grinned Joe Curran:"Communist control of the union is speedily slipping away...
Gratitude from a Waitress. Last May, invited to conduct the London Philharmonic for one concert, he replied that one concert would not be worth his while. Britain was poor, but not too poor to help. Last week's concert was the first of six in a Strauss festival: two he will conduct himself; the others will be given in his honor. Wealthy Sir Thomas (Beecham Pills) and the BBC chipped in with extra concerts. From a waitress came a ten-shilling postal order "because I come from a musical family." The British Treasury promised to "consider favorably" a proposal...
...stunt was reminiscent of a similar incident at New Haven last weekend when a Columbia plane scattered "safe conduct" passes over the Elis guaranteeing them immunity from attack on Manhattan subways...
Reformers from the North have always been glad to advise Southern states on the proper conduct of racial relations. Usually this advice contains no indication that the donor appreciates the institutional and historical framework within which change must be effected; and all too often it reeks self-righteousness which is by no means justified. To show that the Northern escutcheon is not without blot, one need search no further than Cambridge, itself, seat of culture and learning, to find an instance of social discrimination which occurred only last Spring...
...must be drawn somewhere." Under this policy the College will continue its practice of letting commuters in slowly but surely on the basis of how long they have commuted and how soon they graduate as well as how far on the outer edges they reside. Fairness has marked the conduct of this policy. Similarly some tutors have voluntarily relinquished their unnecessary space. Nevertheless, the leisurely bureaucratic pace in the transfer of men from the Indoor Athletic Building suggests the need for a greater appreciation of the human factors at stake...