Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Fairless. With the aid of their respective delegations, they simply put in black & white the generalities previously agreed upon. For the union, the new contract is not so favorable as the old. In the face of Recession's realities, John L. Lewis had been forced to yield ground...
...Most fun, however, was a two-taste of farm life in Georgia's Habersham County. After a hearty breakfast of grits, bacon & eggs and biscuits covered with ham gravy and corn syrup, the boys and girls went forth into the fields to string barbed wire fences, lime the ground, scrape roads, chop trees, split logs, ride mules, barbecue a pair of pigs, drive a tractor (until Student Katy Sprackling broke it). They astonished a Georgia farm family by rebuilding its shack, whitewashing the walls, cutting new windows, building a porch. At dusk they had enough energy left to chase...
Then came Depression, the upsurge of radio, the decline of road earnings. Cain's business dwindled. In 1933 its storage space shrank from five solid floors to a ground floor & basement. From storing sets it descended to clumping & burning them-$30 a truckload for the ride, $4 for the bonfire. Presently Cain's took to burning unclaimed junk at its own expense. Finally, on the last day of 1937, it folded secretly. Patsy Cain kept mum about it for six weeks, hoping for a saving miracle. Said he last week: ''I got out without being exactly...
...Unemployment in the Learned Professions, and to Lowe's article in Social Research of last September. (Kotschnig is now teaching in this country, Lowe in England.) There is considerable evidence that the fifty to seventy thousand unemployed university graduates in Germany in 1932 not only served as a breeding ground for Nazi ideas, but, as a problem, provoked widespread resentment, which also played into the hands of the Nazis. The reduction of university enrollments, which, by the way, set in two years before Hitler came to power, and which had been an unrealized aim of Republican educational policy, was clearly...
...abolition of the present method of selecting the Freshman Union Committee on the ground that is an undemocratic designation of student officials, and further, it is inadequate in scope to accomplish the many tasks open to such a group...