Word: demands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Demand for graduates of Public health schools was pointed out today by Cecil K. Drinker, Dean of the School of Public Health. "It has been estimated", said Dean Drinker, "that the United States require about 250 health school graduates a year. In the entire country there are two schools, Harvard and Johns Hopkins, capable of producing about 150 a year as a total. All graduates who have obtained degrees have positions and positions were never lacking even during the depression." The School was established as an experiment in 1922 and was planned on a small basis the report explained...
...inescapable conclusion is that the President intends to sacrifice his fine ideas for reform of the lower courts on the altar of his last for power over a courageous high tribunal which has hitherto proved recalcitrant to his demand for dictatorial sway. And an interesting commentary on the whole performance is the tomb-like silence from the Harvard Law School, where a group of influential and honorable men, instead of running to the defence of tradition, are indulging in a little sit-down-and-wait strike of their own. For Caesar is ambitious, and the honorable men find it profitable...
...will argue that this is not a tall order, or that it does not demand specially qualified men. What, then, should the criteria for their selection be. Generally speaking, they should be young men, preferably graduates of Harvard who have been through the mill or, at least well acquainted with this college's highways and byways. Secondly, they should be thoroughly available. Thirdly, they should have a working knowledge of Freshman courses; for this purpose the college could publish a pamphlet requiring each professor who enrolls Freshmen in his course to give a concise hundred-word description of it. Lastly...
Another reason that some reasonable wage adjustment will come from the Brotherhoods' demand is that railroad workers are not exhausted youngsters from the nerve-shattering assembly lines of modern manufacture, but seasoned men whose average term of service is about 15 years...
...good the boys or the gods would continue to be to U. S. railroading, stocky, optimistic John Pelley cannot say. Ahead of him is not only the pension snarl and the demand for wage increases, but also a battle for a revision of freight rates to give his carriers more revenue. But John Pelley is no worrier. Said he in the worst of hard times: "Get me right. I'm not going to talk bullish. Nothing like that. I can't see myself sitting on a pink cloud right now. But people are overdoing this pessimism." Today, with...