Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Building Service organizer Robert H. Everitt revealed that he had challenged to a debate mysterious officials who opened a drive to establish a company union last Saturday. All 2700 workers employed by the College have been invited to the duel, scheduled for Friday night in Cypress Hall...
...called Yale Needs the C.I.O., by the Rev. George Butler, a Yale Divinity School graduate. Yale maids, he declared, get only 25? an hour, against 29.1? in Connecticut's laundries, considered a sweated industry. But while student and alumni committees were being formed to help in the organizing drive, industrious Yale Daily News heelers reported the C.I.O. had a big job on its hands. Cracked a janitor: "Lewis [C.I.O.'s John L.] sent his son to Princeton. That's enough...
...unlike Babbitt, Fred Cornplow is harassed by two extraordinarily rude, extravagant, self-centred children who almost drive him crazy and then try to lock him in a sanitarium so he can recover the mental balance they have destroyed. Son Howard is a handsome, stupid, unprincipled college boy who is always borrowing money, wrecking his father's cars, and trying to lie his way out. Daughter Sara is a handsome, ill-natured poseur who becomes a Communist, falls in love with an agitator, overdraws her allowance of $1,000 a year and spends most of her time making poisonous remarks...
...annual report President Conant indicates a number of policies which might be followed by the University provided that additional funds were made available. Particularly he stresses the need for additional scholarships while making no mention at all of the need for continuing the drive for an athletic endowment. President Conant thinks that there exists a very great need for scholarships. Many other people think that there exists a very great need for an athletic endowment. By failing to make any mention of the latter need in his report, the document which will form a chief weapon for Harvard solicitors...
...accommodate those who will not be able to drive to their favorite skiing center, the Boston and Maine Railroad is running fifteen snow trains on Saturday and one on Sunday...