Word: extended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year and a half ago Bob Ramspeck went up against the spoilsmen-masters of legislative sabotage. He had drafted a bill empowering the President to cover into the civil service by examinations some 200,000 job holders in 26 Federal agencies; to extend departmental Washington pay scales to the field service. This was something like combined atheism and blasphemy at a religious revival. The spoilsmen got busy at killing the bill. They gave it the works: delay, amendments that subverted its whole purpose, points of order, objections, pigeonholings, pressure. Ramspeck resurrected the measure, answered the lies, used a pulmotor...
...extend the Monroe Doctrine to Ireland and send convoyed ships that far? I think the British can take care of them the rest of the way. If we showed that we were in this war by such a step, not only the Irish but everyone else would take notice. Turkey's attitude would be changed. Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Spain would remain stiffened in opposition to Hitler...
This generous welcome shows that more than a spring of ivy binds together the two colleges. Competition on the athletic field and camaraderie on the campus are in the Harvard-Yale tradition. And next year, in turn, John Harvard will extend himself to repay the past weekend by as openhearted a reception to Boston...
...States, it reads like an excursion ad. Providing for only 30 days of training for each conscript, it calls for about 30,000 men per month, and aims at a maximum of 300,000 trained men. The Conservative Party scoffs at the shortness of the training period, and would extend it to four months! But the Army feels that the present lack of equipment makes this impractical...
...these speculations are subject to modification. There is strong pressure from the smaller colleges to extend the exemption on college students since they will be practically ruined by the drop in attendance. The plausibility of such a course is being discussed at present, but how soon it will develop depends on the changing nature of the national and international scene