Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House Correspondents' Association canceled its annual dinner for the President at the Hotel Mayflower, partly to save Franklin Roosevelt the embarrassment of crossing an A. F. of L. picket line.* However, since waiters, cooks and bartenders at the Mayflower and twelve other Capital hotels had struck for a closed shop, Actors' Equity Association would have forbidden professional entertainers to appear; food & service would have been substandard; Secret Service men would have strenuously objected to the President risking a picket line, even had he been willing...
...imagination alone. Many a time college participation in town government has gummed up administrative processes. The green hills of Hanover still echo with the legendary story of the town meeting--at which students formerly voted--when the college delegation pushed through a bill for the construction of a subway line to Smith. It was left to the state legislature to repeal this measure. This playful attitude toward local administration finds its prototype at Harvard and numerous other universities...
...Although potentially it was probably the most lucrative franchise ever offered, it drew a lone bid of $1,000, which was promptly rejected. The city thereupon decided to build the subway itself and August Belmont, then a financial outsider, came forward to act as contractor. When the line was finished in 1904, his Interborough Rapid Transit Co. secured a lease to operate...
...ways out of this situation-to raise the fare from 5? or to abrogate the dual contracts. Raising the fare is politically impossible and the only way the contracts can be abrogated is for the city to take over the two private systems, merge them with its own Independent line. Sporadically, until it seemed an empty catchword, transit unification has come up in New York City politics...
Army and navy officers, doctors from Mayo clinic and numerous air line officials conferred secretly with Ross A. McFarland '27 assistant professor of industrial research; David B. Dill professor of Industrial physiology; and several other scientists on the results of the investigations Saturday and yesterday. They refused to comment on their discussions...