Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retention of the elections. I should have thought that the timing of the referendum favored the opponents of the elections. But the Crimson say, "Byrits timing and by its management, it is calculated to stampede Freshmen into approval of the old system." Does the reference to "its management" mean that the Crimson thinks the Council will stuff the ballot...
...choice of Cardinal Maglione did not, however, mean that Pius XII had decided on a pro-French or pro-democratic foreign policy. It meant primarily that the new Pope had picked the most competent diplomat whom he could find to head the Papal diplomatic service, which is one of the ablest in the world. At all times the Vatican resists encroachments, Fascist or otherwise, but its tactics are based on two main principles: 1) never to become identified with any one government, or type of government; 2) that it is never a mistake to be on slightly bad terms with...
...only 13 when he headed West. He was equipped with a fish line, jackknife, agate shooter, $13, a strong will not to return until he was big enough to thrash his browbeating father. His adventures along the way might have been told by Mark Twain -capture by a mean reward-hunter, whose precocious daughter petted him, stole his $13; escape and recapture and escape again; apprenticeship to a kindly windbag who dyed Ray's hair black, stained his face, billed him in his medicine show as Little Yuma the Captive Child, kidnapped by hostile Sioux...
Elections are defended on the grounds than they provide much needed practice in the democratic process. But forms mean nothing provided the correct spirit is not behind them. Democracy in the Union and the Yard is a mockery. The cynical and frivolous attitude toward democratic forms which this situation produces does greater harm than a complete failure to exercise a democratic prerogative. The opportunity to vote will be offered students under far more auspicious circumstances in later years. In the Yard, however, elections are synonymous with hypocrisy, and freshmen conscious of this will abolish the two together...
...future, only continued moderation from both parties can make this agreement the foundation of a lasting structure. Conceivably, if standards of living continue to rise in the next few years, the Union will be justified in asking further wage increases;--but it must be remembered that every increase will mean either drastic restriction of Temporary Student Employment, or increased dining hall prices, or both. Certainly if the Social Security law is not amended to include educational institutions, the University will be obliged to increase the return now provided by its pension plan and to grant the Union's demand that...