Word: hall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although it seems certain that there will be no increase in dining-hall rates during the remainder of the year, it was learned last night that the University is preparing to raise the price of meals next fall because of labor expenses...
...this memorial were the events which the 76th Congress thus celebrated. The ist Congress met on March 4, 1789. Because of the conditions of the roads, and the casualness of Congressmen, a quorum of both Houses could not be mustered until April 6. Their meeting place was Federal Hall at Wall and Nassau Streets, Manhattan (pop. 30,000). President-elect George Washington did not arrive until April 23, was inaugurated April 30. Before the inaugural, Vice President John Adams, having a great regard for ceremony but no precedent to go on, was completely flummoxed. Said he to the Senate...
...American Association of School Administrators in Cleveland. All this oratory proved too much even for the superintendents. By week's end they had found something more amusing to talk about: a little book called The Saber-Tooth Curriculum-which, discovered on display in the exhibitors' hall, wowed the convention...
About five years ago Jenny Jones and Suzie Smith graduated from high school and came to work in the Harvard Dining Halls at $500 a year. In 1937 the Pension Plan was started by the University and $12 was taken from the annual salaries of the two girls. The University added another $12 and the total annual premium of $24 was deposited in a Retirement Annuity for each girl with the Teachers' Insurance and Annuity Association. Last year they joined the A.F. of L. Dining Hall Employees Union, and, since both Jenny and Suzie face problems in connection with their...
With all the gay spirit of her name, "Zaza" dances and twirls her petticoats and darts exciting French eyes to the farthest corners of the University Theatre. As a vivacious music-hall entertainer, Claudette Colbert finds a part suited to her temperament, and handles her high kicks and train of suitors with the same refreshing ability. But when necessities of plot turn her heart towards a rich, Parisian businessman, only stuffy and always noble Herbert Marshall is available to reap the profits. It was a sad mistake for the producers to import Mr. Marshall from the dignity of his Paris...