Word: memoranda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Government subsidies to the Morris Schools were 250,000 pesos ($68,425) in arrears. Teachers, payless for two years, were sending each other memoranda on the margins of old newspapers. Pupils were doing their sums on the backs of used envelopes. Unless the Schools could raise 700,000 pesos in six months, their 15,000 children would go back to the streets...
...General Johnson and the Labor Board for several months, has come out flatfooted against the wage and union provisions of the NRA. It has not only forbidden its employees to organize for purposes of collective bargaining but it has discharged several of them for joining unions. Memoranda on the case, petitions and affidavits, have been circulating back and forth between the Federal Trade Commission and the Labor Board; the first actual response of the Administration has been the filing of a suit for injunction against these practises...
...violated the British taboo that Cabinet discussions are sacred. Edgar had consulted neither the King nor the Prime Minister. George V did not much care. But Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald cared very much. The Government banned My Father and the publishers withdrew it to cut out the Cabinet memoranda. Omitted from the new edition was the inside story of Lansbury's fight in the early days of Depression to force the Labor Cabinet to stand by the Party's "Socialist pledges in behalf of the workers." Lined up against him were the three Laborites who finally made common...
...Hanford, Dean"--such is the way that countless formidable-looking bulletins, memoranda, and communiques from University Hall are signed. No title is so curt, nor so instantaneously effective, and consequently when the eye beholds it, that eye will almost automatically shudder and blink twice. Back of the door, in "University 4," uninvitingly marked "Dean of Harvard College," though, there sits a kindly gentle enough looking man who will spring up at once when you enter, or even come to the door for you, and who will offer you a chair as though there were nothing better to do than...
Efficient League of Nations secretaries handed out the last armfuls of memoranda (making eight tons in all) at the World Monetary & Economic Conference in London last week. The statesmen of 66 nations, though they had accomplished nothing, seemed as cheerful as urchins about to be let out of school. With thermometers at 91° during the final Conference session, many delegates preferred to sip long drinks at the bar downstairs, leaving their places empty. Those who sat and sweltered whispered jokes among themselves as leading Conference delegates read its swan songs. Depending on the swan, the song was either acrid...