Word: contacte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reported on the point of resigning for months has been Under Secretary of the Interior Charles West, who has really functioned as a Congressional contact man for the White House and whose presence Secretary of the Interior Ickes has openly deplored. Last week Mr. West, whose office staff had departed ahead of him, actually did resign. Announced promptly was Mr. West's successor as Under Secretary of the Interior: his special assistant. Harry Slattery, who was also assistant to Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of the Interior Franklin Lane, later helped do the groundwork exposing the Teapot Dome scandal...
...lines' are very rough, there is no regular front at all. What you get is a number of concentrations at various points, with big gaps in between." Three-quarters of the movements in the recent Leftist Aragón retreat took place "without the opposing infantrymen coming into contact at all," observed Sheean...
...ineligible." How can a University boasting a liberal point of view condone a system of education which segregates the poorer students, so that they may steep together (sic) in their intellectual inertia? Is not the House just the place where they might find the stimulation they need through contact with students of other intellectual levels...
...Pobo Mountain front, just northeast of Teruel which has been quiet since March, Rightist troops under General Jose Varela seized the Leftist key stronghold, Escorihuela, prepared for an offensive against the Teruel-Sagunto highway. On the north Catalan front, brisk Leftist counterattacks regained several strategic villages and Barcelona restored contact with "the Leftist Lost Battalion" (43rd Division). "We prefer to fight where we are with our backs to the French frontier!" announced its commander...
Turning to a discussion of changes which have just been made in the Harvard curriculum, he said that more seminars are being introduced in the third year which will bring more students in contact with the faculty. This contact, he felt, is needed more by the students lower down the scale than by the top men who "teach themselves...