Word: locales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ropes Professor of Political Economy. Dean Williams describes Harvard's contribution to this field as the offering of a new method rather than the answering of a new need. He foresees the Littauer Center growing into a real center for men in the public service whether federal, state, or local, and for men in the social sciences, whatever their particular specialty, who are engaged upon research in broad public problems...
Furthermore, it makes all donations, on behalf of undergraduates, to local charities in Cambridge and Boston, and to such national organizations as the Red Cross. It gives roughly three thousand dollars to Phillips Brooks House fund. It provides for a number of scholarships for deserving men who are unable to meet a term bill. Thus one purpose of the Student Council pledge system of contributions is to centralize the charitable work of Harvard undergraduates, to aid the worthwhile causes, and to relive students from undesirable solicitation throughout the year...
...many as ride each year on all the big U. S. railroads put together. Until this week no subway passenger had lost his life in a train crash in more than two years. Then one morning a closing car door caught a woman's hand as a local train started to move out of an east-side station. An excited passenger jerked an emergency stop lever. The train jammed to a halt. Into the rear of it banged another local that was coasting into the station. Toll: two deaths, injuries...
...mountain ridge in Summit County, Utah, newshawks discovered a granite tombstone erected several years ago by Federal Emergency Relief Administration workers. Inscription: "In memory of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932-36." Explained a local county commissioner: ''What the stonecutters really meant was, 'In appreciation of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...roaches and lechers. In the night, dark sedans run round & round the hotel. May Diehl, the committee's case worker, whimpers atop a chair. In another room the teacher, Tom Pettee, strokes the pretty hair of Carol Gillman, an impetuous divorcee. The others discuss tactics. A gang of local "antis" come in, carry out the committee's two leaders, take them to a dark swamp, thrash them unconscious. Then they turn lights and police on their victims. "I swear!" they say. "They have been beating each other up. . . . Goddamn. They want to get us into trouble." The liberals...