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...only concrete platform to which the A. I. L. has committed itself is the four-point statement of aims drawn up in October. At that time the League went on record as being opposed to the defeatist attitude that "America will get in this war sooner or later anyway." In addition it voted against all profiteering, extension of credits to belligerents, and dangerous propaganda and to concentrate the League's efforts on safeguarding civil liberties and strengthening democracy in America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dormant A.I.L. Awaits Serious Threat To Neutrality as Signal to Take Action | 2/10/1940 | See Source »

...whose heads he once set a price, trust him. This week, in a peculiarly Chinese maneuver, the Kuomintang's Central Executive Committee summoned Generalissimo Chiang as President of the Executive Yuan (Premier) again, reducing Premier H. H. Kung to vice president. Then it issued a four-point manifesto, the most emphatic point of which was a refusal to join any anti-Comintern agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Anti-Pro-Comintern | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Formerly a tutor under "Widow" Nolan, Sargent expressed interest in the CRIMSON'S camgaign, offering a four-point program for the University. Lecture notes should be changed every ten years, a modern type of examination should be given, examinations should be set and graded by someone other than the professor in charge of the course, and short reviews should be given prior to examinations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Porter Sargent Is Sure Disinterest Causes Tutoring | 5/31/1939 | See Source »

Moving to eliminate inadequacies of the Senior Class Commencement Week, the Student Council has accepted a committee's four-point reform program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIOR SPREAD EVILS REMEDIED BY COUNCIL | 3/4/1938 | See Source »

...taken ill. Said his doctors: "It is a ticklish point and strictly a matter of opinion whether it is pneumonia." As Pennsylvania's deer-hunting season opened, Vice President John Nance Garner posed for photographers with a shotgun, set forth with nine Senators, shot down a 120-pound four-point buck, hoisted the carcass over his shoulders, posed some more until Indiana's Senator Sherman Minton cracked: "That deer's been photographed so much it's got Kleig eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 13, 1937 | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

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