Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public utility industry, rightly or wrongly convinced that the present U. S. Government is bent on sending it to the death house, has been fighting a rear-guard legal action with about as little success as Convict Tom Mooney. It has lost two major appeals in the Supreme Court. Last fortnight utility lawyers concluded a last-ditch attempt to get the currently New Dealish Supreme Court to reverse the "brutal doctrine of Chattanooga"-the opinion of a three-judge Federal Court this year that since TVA power sales are legal, utilities have no legal relief even from ruinous TVA competition...
...case for antiSemitism, as it appears to strong-stomached Nazis, was taken last week before the bar of German public opinion. It is to be kept there for many weeks, with more than 1,500 major anti-Semitic mass meetings, scheduled throughout Germany, plus countless anti-Semitic lectures?all under the showmanship of Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels...
...second and major suggestion for the improvement of service in Widener Library entails a certain amount of architectural adjustment. At the present time the cramped space of the Delivery Room and the small size of the delivery desk result in an inordinate amount of confusion and delay; there is rarely enough room to sit down, and the crowds that mill around the desk interfere with those who are trying either to file slips or withdraw books. These present difficulties could be eliminated by breaking down the wall between the present Bibliographical Reference Room and the Delivery Working Room, making...
...Freshman team, after having prepped at Andover. This year he was the second highest scorer in the New England Intercollegiate Soccer League. Last spring as a Sophomore, he won his Major "H" as a result of his work as a shot putter on the track team. Next year's manager will be John Keppel '40, of Eliot House...
More impressive than its recommendations is the confidence in the U. S. Army and Navy underlying The Ramparts We Watch. With no military caste, U. S. officers get a more thorough training, says Major Eliot, than the officers of militaristic nations. Their power watchfully curbed by a democracy that has been afraid of militarism from the start, they nevertheless have a long tradition of loyalty to democratic government-"and they will be loyal," says Major Eliot. One of the most heartening books to appear in a season filled with disheartening ones. The Ramparts We Watch discusses war without sword rattling...