Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gone through grammar school; only 11% had finished high school. In age, 59.47% were 17 or 18. Nine per cent were Negroes segregated in their own camps (as are veterans; Indians usually work in reservation groups, live at home). Application for CCC jobs are cleared by local relief agencies through the U. S. Labor and War Departments. CCC juniors report, on acceptance, at an Army recruiting station, usually go directly to CCCamps, where they find a Reserve lieutenant or captain in command. There they begin group life in uniform. But they find no guardhouse, no drill, no saluting, no punishments...
...Liverpool. Of Layman McGuire, a writer of detective stories on the side (Funeral in Eden), his publishers, Sheed & Ward, say: "There is nothing quite like him for stirring a kind of steady enthusiasm for Being Catholic Out Loud." Some of the Guide's pointers for forming Catholic Action groups: > "The most suitable number for a group is usually about twelve. . . . They are to have a corporate life. They must pray together, study together, act together." > Each group should elect a Leader, a secretary, a treasurer. "There was a purse-keeper amongst the twelve [Apostles]. For the purse-keeper perhaps...
What three British flying officers-Group Captain George C. Pirie, Aviation Attaché at the Washington Embassy, a Royal Air Force officer and a Canadian aircraft inspector-learned last week about. the crash of Imperial Airways' Bermuda-bound flying boat they kept to themselves. The Cavalier itself lay peacefully not far from the scandal-smeared hull of the steamer, Vestris (1928), 300 miles from where the Mono Castle burned (1934). But it was no secret that the Cavalier, like these ill-fated steamships, had been caught in circumstances for which it was unprepared and had muddled through pretty sloppily...
Plans for the meeting were formulated by a group of scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, and Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of Technology, will preside...
...Chesapeake's stockholders their company's assets. Last week, with Guaranty voting; 71% of the stock, 73% of the stockholders approved. When the burial is completed, Alleghany will be directly over the C. & O holding a 25% interest in that valuable property. Robert Young's group, meanwhile. remains the largest owner of Alleghany-but Guaranty will remain in control as long as Alleghany's bonds are in default...