Word: core
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Withdrawals, coupled with some half-way participation, cut the actual core staff of the Social Service Committee down to a loyal 130 who are always on the job. This means large slices of week-day afternoons and evenings. Although settlement houses in the strict tradition are always available for the neighborhood (the name itself derives from the fact that social workers actually 'settled' in the poorer districts by living in the houses), the heavy traffic comes from 3:30 to 5:30 and from 7:30 until closing time. Kindergartens in the morning do not involve Harvard men. But teen...
...administrative core of the Foundation's work is a fifteen-man "student council," composed of both Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates under the presidency of Paul Van Buren ocC. Nearly all council members are chairmen of sub-organizations, such as the choir which sings at the Sunday services...
...doesn't call itself Fascist, but neither did the German National Socialists. And General De Gaullo's principles of nationalism, militarism, and an anti-labor policy, enforced by a strong central executive, all sound familiar. In fact, the whole procedure are sounds familiar--the "non-political" rallies, the unified core of 40 percent against a divided opposition and an apathetic majority the shrieks about a red menace, and finally the complacent satisfaction in America at the sight of Communism foiled. The whole thing has the horrible aspect of a once van quished vampire coming to life again...
...French Communist Party is on the skids. Numerically, that is; because it becomes all the more dangerous as it tends to be reduced to its hard core. But political trends in France affect the peasants about six months after they have influenced urban areas. The Communist slump is only now beginning to touch the peasant vote...
Politically, the seeds of Arab disunity over the projected Arab portion of Palestine are already sown. The Hashemite-ruled countries of Trans-Jordan and lraq harbor long-range designs towards Syria as well as Arab Palestine, while the Mufti of Jerusalem sees the new state as the core of an ever-widening personal empire. To the North, the Christian Lebanese prefer a Jewish to a Moslem neighbor, while Ibn Saud of Arabia has already acknowledged that his oil concessions will be continued, whatever the UN decides for the Holy Land. Although the Arabstates could unite against partition, long term objective...