Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaders tonight gave the "quick action" signal to a program to amend and liberalize the Social Security Act early in the forthcoming session of Congress to combat the rapid growth of more sweeping old-age pension schemes. Chairman Robert Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee, said his group will begin a thorough study of "liberalization" proposals as soon as Congress convenes and that such legislation would take precedence over the administration's tax program...
...Crimson fumbled the chance to publish a really important editorial last Monday, when commenting on the enrollment statistics. In the face of probably the most disturbing revelations in the educational field in years, the Crimson contented itself with murmuring that, while Harvard did not want to become a group of vocational schools, nonetheless compulsory, irrelated courses were dull and valueless. The point at issue seems much rather to be: precisely what, if any, educational program exists today of Harvard The solution to the mystery of departmental fluctuations is the tragic, but simple one, that nobody has any clear idea...
...actions of Harvard students have, in many cases, severely tried the patience of the University authorities. But the action of a large group of Freshmen in breaking up a detachment of children marching in an American Legion parade is the last straw...
Proprietor Steve Vasilakos of the peanut stand at the White House gates, addressing a group of customers, declared: "Look, all the world is yelling and pushing at each other except here. Here is peace and no fuss. . . . Over there, there are guns. Here there ain't no guns. Here there's squirrels on the lawn...
...Chicago and General Robert Wood, president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., were unanimously elected to the 32-man board of governors of the Exchange as "representatives of the public." Until 1934 the Stock Exchange was run as a club, generally excluded outside viewpoints from its deliberations. That year an "advisory group" of ten non-members headed by A. A. Berle Jr. was created, allowed to sit in. This body is given much credit for the growth of the reform spirit in the Exchange, but the Conway Committee decided: "We believe the public viewpoint may more effectively be expressed only when nonmember...