Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Latest advices from the coast are that the students, and the campus paper, intend not to back down in their proposed insistence on freedom of campus activities. What will happen--that is, what President Sproul will decide to do--is not clear. But undergraduate eyes throughout the nation are turning California-ward, as they were turned toward Michigan last year, and as they continually turn when student freedom is challenged in one college or another...
...site was Little Pea Island, a bleak cluster of rocks about 150 ft. square, a mile off the shore of Westchester County. According to CBS calculations, it is the finest spot around New York City for radio transmission. Now leveling the island off, CBS engineers intend to surround it with a 16 ½ ft. sea wall, anchor a 410-ft. transmitter upon it in 39 ft. of concrete. Housed in a control building 75 ft. square will be all the equipment needed for transmission. Two telephone lines will be laid on the bottom of the Sound to carry programs from...
...remarkably close to the later official estimate (2,415,988,000 bu.). This week Claude Wickard got another promotion. Henry Wallace resigned to campaign for the Vice-Presidency; Claude Wickard was nominated to be Mr. Roosevelt's second Secretary of Agriculture. Said Claude Wickard, with expected modesty: "I intend to carry out the policies of Henry A. Wallace...
Franklin Roosevelt almost certainly did not intend to ask the British to let the U. S. feed Hitler's victims, unless U. S. public opinion forced such a step. Neither did the U. S. Red Cross, which up to last week had distributed about $8,000,000 to stricken Europe, hardly knew what to do with the balance of a $20,000,000 relief fund (except to continue helping Great Britain, perhaps send medical supplies, baby food, etc. to unoccupied France). And Washington had no doubts about what Britain would say, if she were asked to give...
...stockholder moved that the meeting be adjourned for a month so that the Board of Trade could investigate. All stockholders but one voted in favor. But the Earl of Dudley exercised the Steel Committee's controlling vote. Demanded Sir William: "Do you intend to outvote every resolution which is contrary to your wishes...