Word: gradualism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under Britain's new conscription law the Government can call up reserves without publicly announcing it, a facility the dictators have long used to scare their adversaries. Last week there began a quiet, gradual mobilization of reservists in Britain which is expected to keep under arms throughout the summer and autumn, Europe's danger period, some...
Major and minor Crimson captains have presented a united front in condemning the Student Council's athletic report released Monday which advises the gradual abolition of all minor and Jayvee (except football and crew) sports, and the incorporation of all these sports (with their coaches) into House Athletic Program...
...exempting, employees of educational institutions but under a technicality this does not cover fraternity waiters. Thus undergraduates working for Morrow Cafeteria and the fraternities eating there are exempt while the other fraternity members have to pay, creating an obvious incongruity. The act further provides for a gradual increase in this Old Age Insurance Tax to six percent by 1948. To meet these payments fraternities will be forced eventually to cut down on either wages or jobs, hurting those who most need financial help. Thus is higher education encouraged...." --The Amherst Student...
Without warning, SEC had threatened to delist Transamerica stock on the charge that its registration statement contained "false and misleading statements." That all was not rosy between Banker Giannini and the New Deal was first indicated last spring when Franklin Roosevelt in his monopoly message called for "gradual separation of banks from holding com pany control." Wise old A. P. had already prepared for such a contingency year and a half ago by rearranging Transamerica's stock so it could be switched quickly to an investment trust. It was on this realignment that SEC last week cracked down with...
...plump, homey individual, as different from Soprano Farrar as Pilsener is from champagne, Soprano Lehmann writes much better. The daughter of a small town bookkeeper who wanted her to be come a respectable stenographer or school teacher, Lotte Lehmann made a very gradual climb to stardom, worked her way laboriously through bit parts at second-rank German opera houses. It was not until the London Covent Garden season of 1923 that she won international fame. But once won, that fame stuck like well-swabbed glue...