Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Both Houses voted a 10% pay boost, retroactive to January, for more than 1,000,000 federal civil servants. Added annual cost: $542 million. <1 By a 12-1 margin, the Senate Labor Committee approved Jack Kennedy's labor-reform bill requiring unions to hold secret ballot elections at least once every five years, report to the Government on where the money comes from and goes. Kennedy managed to draft a bill that was both 1) hard-knuckled enough to win the indispensable endorsement of Arkansas' labor-investigating John Mc-Clellan, and 2) so kid-gloved that...
...deliver the commencement address at De-Pauw University, successor to the medical school attended by his Hoosier maternal grandfather in 1849. Spelling out "why the Soviet Union has satellites while in the free world we have allies," Macmillan laid out in cousinly candor the tough-minded assumptions that hold the free world together. Excerpts...
Much depends, of course, on what advantage is made of this ratio. Unlike the facilities of most larger schools, most of the Middlesex faculty lives on or close to the school's campus. Each of the six "houses," which hold between 25 and 30 students, has quarters for a married master and at least one other instructor. The master, a senior faculty member, also acts as an advisor to the students in his dormitory. This task involves at least one conference every two weeks to discuss bi-weekly grade reports. But the master's job involves much more--seeing that...
Three quarters of America's high school students believe that the most important thing they can learn in school is "how to get along with people." Academic achievement rated first with fourteen per cent. Two thirds of U.S. college students would rather be popular than brilliant, and hold that the main purpose of education is to develop a well-rounded personality...
...case of rain, the exercises will be held in New Lecture Hall. The forecast is for continuing cloudiness this morning but it is expected that rain will hold off until this afternoon...