Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having found their Hitler, Knight Deatherage ("Judaism and Communism are synonymous") proposed to Captain Campbell that they go abort organization, contact "leaders of main groups throughout the nation"-Father Coughlin, Kansas' anti-Semite Gerald Winrod, John Frey of the A. F. of L.'s Metal Trades Department, the American Legion's Americanism Commission Director Homer Chaillaux,* Louis John Taber, master of the National Grange, Walter Garrison of the Associated Farmers of California-"in all, men who are heads of large groups on our side of the fence." George Deatherage's meeting to bring these leaders together...
...offices elsewhere. This is the result of one of two things. Either a man's field, if it is a small one, is not represented in any House, or the staff of the House is not well-rounded. Since one of the reasons for the House Plan was closer contact between tutor and tutee, the present situation is very undesirable and could be remedied if each House had a diversified staff...
General comprehension and original interpretation will be the criteria determining students' final grade in Economics A. The personal contact between instructor and student, and the examination questions will be directed towards this end. Professor Burbank pointed out the futility of tutoring and the "inadequacy" of prepared notes...
...Every poet, I think, ought to be something of a local poet," Coffin says, and thus he expresses the conviction that knowledge of one's subject, contact with it through personal experience, is the main guarantee of poetic inspiration. And as a local poet, he can assume, in his own words, that he is a "representative of the people." There is more than merely a simple exposition of peculiar traits indigenous to Maine in his poems. He who would classify Coffin as a provincialist, limited in scope to the portrayal of a single group of individuals, might as well judge...
Coupled with competition, there must be direct pressure on the commercial schools. Direct pressure is the only insurance of their passing; they will not simply atrophy because of competition. It can take a variety of forms: law-suits, contact with parents and prep schools, efforts to have all other student publications cease advertising, steps to make class lists and especially lists of freshmen inaccessible. All of these must be pursued. As a final trump, there is the possibility of direct pressure on the students themselves to stop tutoring in the Square...