Word: granting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...originated by bored debtors in Fleet Street prison about 1800. Like court tennis, it was soon taken over by the notably solvent, is now the luxury of a comparative handful in the U. S. on 14 courts in exclusive clubs. Main U. S. racqueteer is a Manhattan broker, Robert Grant...
...that every increase will mean either drastic restriction of Temporary Student Employment, or increased dining hall prices, or both. Certainly if the Social Security law is not amended to include educational institutions, the University will be obliged to increase the return now provided by its pension plan and to grant the Union's demand that it be put on a voluntary basis. Perhaps an employment office to provide summer work can be instituted. But if there should be any attempt to use the bargaining power of the closed shop as a big stick with which to beat unreasonable concessions from...
...been financed for the last six years by an annual grant of $40,000, a third of this paid from Union receipts, two thirds by the University Dining-Halls. Abolition of T. S. E. P., depriving many students of jobs would nevertheless reduce the Dining-Halls' deficit to a negligible sum and put the Union back on a paying basis...
...Laborite motion of censure brought against Mr. Chamberlain declared "that in the opinion of this House, the decision of His Majesty's Government to grant unconditional recognition to the Spanish Insurgent forces, dependent upon foreign intervention, constitutes a deliberate affront to the legitimate Government of a friendly power, is a gross breach of international traditions and marks a further stage in a policy which is steadily destroying in all the democratic countries confidence in the good faith of Britain...
...Last year G. E. B. renewed its grant for another ten years but cut the yearly allowance from $250,000 to $80,000 compelled some trimming and the transfer of some branches of the Institute to the Yale School of Medicine...