Word: crux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crux of the debate on procedure has been the question of whether the departments served as information-gathering groups for the administration or whether they made suggestions as a body. In some quarters it has been held that the decisions have emanated from above rather than from the department...
Fortunately, out of the tremendous complications of the problem, there are emerging some clear-cut and comprehensible issues. The crux of the matter might now be stated as follows: The Administration is persisting in its general policy of creating associate professorships only when there are predictable vacancies--over a certain span of years--in the full professor bracket. In accordance with this policy, ten assistant professors were released last spring, since no positions higher up were seen to be open for them within the next ten years. This action was taken in spite of the fact that several...
...London at midnight Prime Minister Chamberlain, who saw as the crux of the matter the issue of whether Germany would get Sudetenland at once or after the formality of international negotiation, declared...
Price & Dealers. The crux of Philip Morris' selling is its 15? price. Its rivals allow price cutting (such as two packs for a quarter). Philip Morris never does and swears it never will. In some States price-maintenance laws insure this policy; in others Philip Morris relies on its good dealer relations to maintain the 15? price. This price stability assures dealers their approximate 2? per pack profit margin with Philip Morris and they tend to push it harder, give it better displays, etc. Conversely, with its prices rigid at a high level, Philip Morris has more money...
...difficulties is the struggle between the Martin Progressive faction, which believes in strong centralized authority, and the Unity faction headed by Vice President Mortimer and Mr. Frankensteen, which believes in greater local autonomy. That, in Mr. Martin's opinion, has led to U.A.W.'s "wildcat" strikes. Crux of last week's row was clever, self-assertive Fred C. Pieper, board member from Atlanta and chairman of U.A.W.'s newly created finance committee. According to President Martin's enemies, Mr. Pieper had pre-empted most of the executive authority at Detroit headquarters with no sanction except...