Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three for concentrators, as well as the least difficult. It is intended primarily for students who wish to devote a half course or so to Philosophy, and is excellently conducted by Professor Wild, but is still not recommended for Freshmen. It is too big a jump from prep-school matter-of-factness...
...beginning of the Academic year, the Student Council of 1937-1938 found itself with certain investigations already under way, or promised to the students. As a matter of policy, I question the advisability of making commitments from one year to the next. . . . The Student Council of any year should be entirely free to turn its energies to problems which are the most pressing in its own estimation. This opinion is also held by Mr. Bowditch...
Millions of Mexicans honestly believe their Government's expropriation of $400,000,000 worth of U. S. and British oil properties is approved in the White House as a justified crackdown upon Capitalist gringos. Britons do not take so easy a view of the matter, and suddenly last week the British Government sent a third note of stern protest. London papers called Mexican President General Lazaro Cardenas a "bandit." After hours of rapidly worsening relations, the envoy of Mexico in London and the envoy of Britain in Mexico City were withdrawn by their respective Governments, together with their whole...
...fellow Exchange Governor Richard Whitney had used cash belonging to the Gratuity Fund, but had not thought this significant enough to report to the Exchange because using customers' cash was general practice among brokerage houses. SEC regarded this assertion as remarkable, ordered the Exchange to look into the matter...
...life became a matter of missed trains, hurried meals, bad hotels. Sometimes Chautauqua people went a little batty under the strain of missing trains; one lecturer rushed on the platform, spent the time for his lecture telling the audience how hard it had been for him to get there, announced that he had only ten minutes to make his train, and dashed away. But good-natured provincial audiences seemed to sleep just as contentedly through that sort of performance as any other. Although Gay MacLaren summons up a vanished area of U. S. cultural life in Morally We Roll Along...