Word: lately
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would reinstatement be "unwise"? The President has himself, in appointing the committee, admitted "the existence of substantial doubt within the University as to the justice or wisdom of the university's action." Has the situation changed? And why "impractical??" Is it too late? Last year, in writing to the Board of Overseers about the committee of inquiry, the President said, "Since the appointments of Dr. Walsh and Dr. Sweezy run for two years, there is ample time for me to reopen their casts if the committee's report warrants it." Yet now he offers not a word to refute...
Greatly inconvenienced, Mrs. Coolidge, who was expecting her son John and a party of friends for his Amherst reunion, got her late husband's law partner, Ralph Hemenway, to see the authorities. Last week her water closets got into the newspapers. Mayor William H.Feiker promised to take them up with the City Council at its meeting June...
...Like the late Huey Long, Minnesota's late Farmer-Labor Boss Floyd Bjornsjerne Olson left some mutually unfriendly political heirs. The de facto inheritor of the Olson mantle is serious, bespectacled Governor Elmer Austin Benson, who is engaged in a struggle for renomination in the June 20 primary. Opposed to him is Farmer-Labor's more conservative faction, whose Candidate Hjalmar Petersen was Governor for a few months in 1936 following the death of Governor Olson and who once quit the party because he thought it was going Communist. Last week the fight shifted to a new front...
Mildly irritating at times even to his loyal half-sister-in-law, Lady Austen Chamberlain, widow of the late Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir Austen Chamberlain (see cut), the Prime Minister's mediation talk taxed the patience of Laborites and Liberals. The whole thing was probably best explained by United Press as a gesture designed to appease the rising ire of the British public and released to a pro-Government press for British consumption only...
...these permanent, advisory posts. Sartorially correct, 61-year-old Colonel Sir Maurice, dubbed "Sir Maurice the Immaculate." was far closer to previous Prime Ministers David Lloyd George, James Ramsay MacDonald and Stanley Baldwin than he was to Mr. Chamberlain. From his three influential seats. Sir Maurice has of late been reported as opposing certain phases of the Government's rearmament program...