Word: keys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...isms." That should be easy enough. But before that job could be attended to, something had to be done about the gold standard. Ever since the U. S. Government increased the price of gold, the Phi Beta Kappa Society had been losing money hand over fist on its gold Key, whose cost remained unchanged, although its gold content was reduced. To cover this deficit, and also incidentally to pay for an intellectual freedom campaign on the side, the Society was found to be in need of $300,000. And while the world felt itself rolling nearer and nearer the edge...
...Beck. And since young Poland's survival must inevitably depend upon how well her foreign rather than her domestic affairs are conducted, it was Colonel Beck who became the "guardian of Pilsudski's testament"-an unwritten but nevertheless precise outline of Polish foreign policy-and hence the key figure in Polish if not Eastern European politics...
Harry Hopkins was not solely responsible for his Des Moines speech. As with most key New Deal utterances these days, it was guided to the microphone by Janizary Thomas Corcoran. Economist Willard Thorp contributed the part on labor, Lawyer Ben Cohen the part on utilities...
Cline is a graduate of the Wiley High School in Terre Haute, Indiana. He was captain of his football team and high man in his class. He also got his Phi Beta Kappa key in his third year, and has been self supporting while in college...
...preserve these, even at the expense of painting over other original aims. There are three separate and distinct aspects to the American Civilization Plan. First is its extra-curricular nature. This looks toward the inculcation of a habit of self-education in students, toward the provision of a "key to future education" which would make learning a life-long process. Second is its subject matter. This is American history in the broadest sense--cultural, scientific, and economic as well as political history, all brought into a unified and correlated whole. Third is its position in the field of education...