Word: existant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last stronghold of the Harvard of 1942 will remain, to all appearances unchanged. Yes, externally the same, the Lampoon Building will still exist, heedless of the swirling currents of humanity that pass and crash at its corner. But inside its three walls things will be different, for after having served the functional purpose of an airraid shelter during the War, the Lampoon will have been turned over to the Boston Elevated Railway as a subway station...
...states that men with a knowledge of the less familiar languages have "almost unique utility." However, the Intelligence Corps has said that it will not take volunteer interpreters from civilian life. Once drafted, an ex-student of Japanese may apply for transfer to the Intelligence department, if vacancies exist. The chances may be good, but the hitch should be publicized nevertheless. It would also have been a good idea to point out that the course, to be effective, must be followed up by approximately eight months of further training under the Far Eastern Department. Prospective students ought also...
...only must the evident forms of venality be stamped out but the less notorious and more pernicious forms of minority rule will have to be done away with before labor can reach its full effectiveness in national life. Unions exist, especially in the older and more established A.F. of L., which have not held elections in years. Some are merely the personal property of their executive officers, who carry on a policy not for the good of the membership but as the owners of a vested right. The executive council of the A.F. of L. itself exerts an autocratic power...
...unified organization with a progressive leadership can do a great deal to destroy the evils which blind the Pegler type of thinker to the vast possibilities for good which exist in unionism. With the change from division to unity labor will have a chance to throw out the entrenched powers and to approach more nearly the ideal of democracy. Strong and self-governing, only then will it be able to utilize all its powers for the advance of democracy in this country...
Most important aspect of this sort of competition: it can and very often does exist without any "conspiracy" at all, solely from the similar action of companies with similar problems making similar efforts to maximize profits. In this case, the tobacco jury found a "conspiracy...