Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members of '51 will be polled tomorrow night in the dining halls to see if they favor the scholarship. The questionnaire will also ask how much they are willing to give...
...November the United Textile Workers of America (A.F.L.) had called a strike meeting. Of the 4,637 people in Paris, 650 were employed in the Penman's, Ltd. textile mills, the town's No. 1 industry. At the strike meeting, only 51 people cast ballots, 27 in favor of a strike, 24 against it. The company granted a 5?-an-hour increase, but union leaders, seeking 15?, used their three-vote majority to call the first strike in Paris in 42 years...
...report's most controversial sections dealt with the problem of how much build-up to prescribe for industry, as compared with agriculture. It was no secret that Commission Aide Euvaldo Lodi, president of the National Confederation of Industry (Brazil's N.A.M.), had argued heatedly in favor of industrial development, even charging that some U.S. commissioners wanted to leave that field wide open for fellow yanquis. But the commission's finding was that Brazil still lacks resources and equipment for a general advance on its entire economic front. Because stepping up industry would require a prior boost...
...point out that this time a decision which the United States could not properly take unilaterally; that such a step could be taken only with the consent of the Marshall Plan countries, relying upon Dutch contributions to general European recovery and numbering among themselves several colonial powers, would favor this action. The question of Indonesia providing commodities vital to European recovery was never mentioned; obviously Indonesia could provide such commodities whether or not it was under Dutch control. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. '38 Associate Professor of History
Recently, the entire Romance Languages Department went on record unanimously in favor of the Sweet Briar Plan. Associate Professor Francis M. Rogers, Chairman of the Department, feels that students are under adequate supervision and do at least as much work as they would in this country. He points out that awarding of credit by Harvard would be a comparatively simple matter. The French university would send the College a transcript of the student's record. If his grades were satisfactory, the College would grant credit for a full year. If they were not, credit would of course be withheld...