Word: goings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surgeons were truly impersonal (or, one might say, truly neutral) they would not heed the calls of distress from suffering humanity when they themselves were otherwise engaged in watching the ticker, or playing bridge, or writing thoughtful treatises on the insanity of their fellow men. They would not go to the considerable trouble and risk of using their knives to remove the malignant growths in the body of civilization. They would always find comfortable refuge behind that ancient question, "Am I my brother's keeper...
...death of Admiral Gary T. Grayson last year, she was urged to fill his position as national chairman. She had declined many times before, declined again. Her reason: "If there ever arises any doubt about the conduct of the Red Cross or its finances, investigators might be inclined to go easy with a woman. A man would have to accept a merciless inquiry.'' Norman H. Davis accepted the post, and Mabel Boardman remained secretary...
Full of rearmament plans but temporarily checked by what the law schools term a "conflict of law," the Army has been impatiently marking time. All dressed up, it had no place to go. For President Roosevelt, while authorized to spend more than Congress has appropriated for Army pay, food, clothing for new recruits, was prohibited by law from doing the same for housing, hospitalization and transportation. And without funds the Army could not move men, had to shelve temporarily its plans for improved living quarters and medical facilities at numerous bases in the U. S. and her territories...
...sent the General Staff into a glad quickstep. His limited emergency proclamation last month gave him clear authority to increase the enlisted strength of Army, Navy, Marine Corps and National Guard, said the President; therefore he had the implied authority to spend the necessary money, and he intended to go ahead, ask Congress afterwards...
...MacKinney difference who scores first, Gibler ball to Macdonald and Wasem go for Harvard. The Wheeler fortune spins and the final score Wilston--Harvard 33, Chicago...