Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin promoted to rank at the tail* of his Cabinet, last week, seven of those "coming" young Conservative M. P.'s who are known in the House of Commons as the "ginger group." Among the promoted only Captain Alfred Duff Cooper, dashing husband of Lady Diana (The Miracle) Manners is well known in the U. S. He was stepped up to Financial Secretary of the War Office...
Very quietly, very significantly a group of men representing 5,000,000 employes and another group representing £1,000,000,000 in invested capital met together at London last week for the first time. They met on strictly neutral ground, in a lofty pillared room at Burlington House, a room hitherto sacred to the high-minded proceedings of The Royal Society (scientific). There, seated around four baize-covered tables, they founded with high hopes the Conference of Industrial Cooperation...
There is an emotion of mixed awe and delight at his inventions that keeps the eyes of every scientist naive and young. Three amiable groups in three separate homes in Schenectady, N. Y. were so moved last week. A few blocks away in a research laboratory of the General Electric Co. a fourth group tingled sympathetically. In the laboratory was a television sending set; in the homes were television receiving sets. In the laboratory broadcasters moved, talked, sang, and in regimented waves their actions and sounds gambolled over the radio to the sight & hearing of the home audiences. Television, last...
Whatever is wrong with the present lecture system is not altogether to be charged against the professors--who, it may be noted, are always the most progressive group in a university, the students and Convocation being the most conservative. Lectures are a remnant of mediaevalism and date from a time when there were no text-books...
...organization in charge of the system as yet has adopted no formal name, but it is understood that the group will call themselves the Eastern Association for the Appointment of Football Officials. No officials have been announced but it is reported that W. W. Roper, who was chairman at the last gathering, and Harry Heneage of Dartmouth have been leading the activities of the organization at the meetings...