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Word: menials (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behind it lies a story that can be duplicated wherever labor has organized. Once upon a time, the drawers of water and others who did menial jobs for Harvard were not treated in accordance with the liberal doctrines being taught in Sever and Emerson. There were even law suits, and the result was a lot of bad publicity for the University and a distrust on the part of employees which survived the advent of a more benign policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIX BIT STICK-UP | 3/8/1939 | See Source »

...after the recent Memel election, Lithuania's President Antanas Smetona was inaugurated for his fourth term, remarked "we small countries must be careful." Since the election-in which Menial's Nazi party with a "Back to the Reich" slogan, won 25 out of 29 seats in Memel's semi-autonomous assembly-President Smetona has had to be more than careful. Adolf Hitler likes Smetona's most potent political rival, Augustine Valdemaras, and Nazis have pressed for his inclusion in Lithuania's Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LITHUANIA: Careful Smetona | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...adequate safeguard against poor patronage appointments and the agencies misuse of their delegated power. Yet such front-page publicity would be well-high impossible to get, for unlike the T.V.A. or the S.E.C., whose decisions on matters of policy frequently rate headlines, these proposed bureaus would be solely menial, administrative instruments of policies already enacted by Congress. Since these agencies would probably assume a position similar to that of the Budget Bureau--a little-known, important unit of the Treasury Department--Congress and not the new bureaus would receive any forthcoming publicity, favorable or otherwise. Thus it appears that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, '39 MODEL | 12/10/1938 | See Source »

...Vice-president; by placing him in charge of the Freshman Committee, whose place in P. B. H. is a central one, the Cabinet has carried out this objective to perfection. Selecting twelve to fifteen Freshmen each fall for the Committee is a task not to be scorned as menial, but to be considered rather as a responsibility which only a capable man can fulfill. And the holding of a competition in the spring is a handy device for permitting Sophomores and Juniors to make an official position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASE BUILDING | 11/23/1937 | See Source »

...style, that his middle-aged female audience seemed well satisfied with the content of his message-mainly that will power can accomplish anything. Dr. de Quevedo's rules for developing will power: 1) "Go out of your way to look for responsibilities. 2) Console yourself while employed in menial labor with thoughts of the reward to come (Eternal Life). 3) Do something every day that you don't want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sunshine's Ambassador | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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