Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of March 17, the Harvard "Crimson" announced that "Unidentified Harvard students will take a vigorous part in aiding striking garment workers to picket." In true Hearst fashion, the "Crimson" then states "these students, it is said, will make a determined effort to repeat the riot at Charlestown...
...Council at present utilizes very few of the functions which originally made it a Student Council. No longer does it make any real effort to "create the general sentiment that it is a question of individuals and college honor to maintain a strict attention to scholastic duties" or exercise direct jurisdiction over individual students. These approaches are incompatible with the Harvard theories of independence and individuality. No longer does it exercise the powers of advising student organizations concerning their conduct, of checking up on the scholastic misdemeanors of students, of guarding against evils in the conduct of athletics...
...Corp., largest co-operative buying organization for department stores in the East. The National Retail Dry Goods Association had made the same conspiracy charge in a letter sent to its 5,000 members. To many a dress manufacturer the Filene suit meant that a stability achieved after years of effort was in serious danger of legal upset. To retailers everywhere it was a call to arms...
...Poland, he started his career in the Manhattan dress market as an errand boy carrying thread to shirtwaist makers. He now owns a manufacturing firm with six factories, makes dresses retailing from $55 up. Mr. Rentner says the court fight now threatening his Guild is at bottom an effort by retailers to escape the Guild's stabilizing policies on discounts and returns, that the question of style piracy regulation in cheaper grades is just a smoke screen. Inflexible throughout the controversy, he last week made the Guild's first conciliatory move, promising: "The Guild will ship goods...
Last week the U.S. busline business honked and roared with excitement as the nation's biggest highway transport system came sailing out of its best year, and eight other lines banded together, opened up their managerial throttles in a daring effort to overtake the leader...