Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adopted a resolution in convention withholding approval of the 15 foot-candle minimum until "scientific" tests had been made. A member of the committee, Miss Alice Barrows, the U. S. Office of Education's specialist in school building problems, refused to vote for the report, declared the matter should be studied by disinterested scientists. University of Minnesota's Miles A. Tinker pooh-poohed the tests cited in the report, said his own studies had shown no gain in speed of reading in light stronger than three foot-candles. Meanwhile, Raymond V. Long, Virginia's director of school...
Inside the Journal, readers found sensational matter. The gist of three main charges...
Said Mr. White for that committee this week: "A policy of gradual liquidation as to some of the collateral and unrelated investments will be followed." Mr. Hearst has not always conducted his business as his bankers would have preferred. Once he had bought a paper, it was a matter of pride to keep it going as a unit in his one-man show. That policy Mr. Hearst dropped last July when he killed the New York American, explaining: "The newspapers that are favorites with me are the newspapers that are favorites with the public." Henceforth it is evident that...
...even 99% pure silica, of great metallurgical value. Consequences: the silica, for greater speed, profit, was mined dry; the tunnel workers developed silicosis, died like ants in a flour bin; lawyers representing the workers charged their clients some 50% of the piddling compensations collected; a committee took the matter up before Congress. Net result: Bill blocked, investigation blocked; the workers left their flour bin, some continuing to die like ants, some beginning to think like Poet Rukeyser...
This innovation in selecting the speaker has been made this year to enable the Marshals and the Class Day Committee to make their decisions more easily. Personality and training of the candidates and the subject matter of their talks will be the points on which decisions are based...