Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...growing Unity opposition, the U. A. W.'s difficulties are due mainly to inept leadership by Martin and Frankensteen. Unity leaders were alarmed to hear that Homer Martin had agreed to further restrictions on G.M. grievance committees, which even last year functioned none too smoothly, but their chief complaint is Martin's disregard of democratic procedure, typified for them by his failure to submit the G. M. supplementary agreement to the membership for ratification. Last week, though Unity leaders disclaimed any part in it, evidence was accumulating of a drive to oust Martin before...
...drinkers. Beer is a peaceful drink. Beer is the drink for the ordinary, kindly, simple workingman in the street-the man who can be found in millions all over the world. If he could get together with his fellows in other countries over a pint of beer, we should hear much less of dictators and all the other high and mighty political personages that at present bully and bewilder the ordinary man. In these unstable, quarrelsome days. I think I can give you a slogan for all peaceful, genial, companionable folks of all countries: 'Beer Drinkers of the World...
...Maugham's reasons for not writing an autobiography. He has a poor memory. His life has not been adventurous. He has written so many novels that he can scarcely distinguish fact from fiction in his work. "I can never remember a good story," he complains, "till I hear it again and then I forget it before I have had a chance to tell it to somebody else." But he realized that it would "exasperate" him if he should die before he had written down his thoughts on the subjects that have chiefly interested him. Since these turn...
Tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House, the Sociology Club will hear Read Bain, Chairman of the Department of Sociology at Miami University in Ohio, speak on "Sociology, A Natural Science." Professor Bain is visiting lecturer in the Sociology Department this year. He has recently been elected for a two-year term to the editorship of the American Sociological Review...
...into the Boylston Library now and hear repeated long sighs, it is not because the historical reading is so enthralling. It is because yesterday afternoon a new pastime was introduced there...