Word: establishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reforming the Freshman advisory system Dean Leighton has done more than to offer recompense and to establish a minimum of time for advising. By reducing the number of advisers to about sixty the Board of Advisers has been compacted, which will not only make it easier to keep the members informed but also enable the holding of practical discussions throughout the year on policy and method. Even more necessary is the training of all advisers before they begin to counsel. Full-group sessions should be held in the fall to make each adviser familiar with the curriculum and outside activities...
...Department coaxed $1,517,850 from Congress to establish new R. O. T. C. units in high schools and colleges. Concentrating on high schools, it has made the greatest headway in Chicago, which today has some 30 junior units in public schools. But in a score of other places the War Department has been rebuffed. Last week it was smartly slapped by an 82-year-old woman in Kenosha...
...gift of $30,000 to establish a traveling fellowship in memory of Elizabeth Cary Agassiz has been left to Radcliffe it was announced yesterday by President Comstock at the opening of the term...
...three years. Yet to appear was any sign of industrial revival sufficient to bounce rubber up again. But the I. R. R. C.'s 1934 agreement on planting bases expires this year. So the I. R. R. C. again met in London last week, this time to establish not only the export quota for the next three months, but a new planting limit. Recognizing the present slump, I. R. R. C. set the quarterly quota at 60%. Optimistic for the long pull, however, I. R. R. C. upped its bases along a graduated line. The 1934 base...
...activity. The National Automobile Dealers Association has done just the reverse, with these results last week: 1) Wisconsin's Congressman Gardner R. Withrow, directing the Federal Trade Commission to investigate automobile dealer-manufacturer relations; 2) FTC acquiesced to the N. A. D. A. petition for a conference to establish fair trade practice rules, chose April 26 as the day, Detroit as the place. On the agenda, among other things, said FTC, are "various forms of misrepresentation, including misleading illustrations; use of fictitious prices and terms of sale; false invoicing; coercion; commercial bribery; finance charge 'packing,' and price...