Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dyed-in-the-wool musical fan will miss the spark that dirty jokes strike so wonderfully. For sex is at an absolute minimum in this edition. That and Ethel Merman are all it needs to concede to a $4.40 a seat show like "Panama Hattie...
Labor. "I stand for the National Labor Relations Act and the right of free collective bargaining. I stand for minimum wages and maximum hours, and for legislation to enforce them. I stand for social-security benefits and believe that they should be extended to other groups. . . " But over & over Wendell Willkie insisted: "That is not enough-that is not enough." Collective bargaining was meaningless to a man with no job to bargain with; minimum wages meant nothing to the man on relief; social-security benefits were endangered in view of future financial crises; the only real remedy was an administration...
...register for the draft. Most of the 16,500,000 know just what to do (go to their local precinct centre, fill out a simple registration form), will do it with no fuss & fumble. But some fussing & fumbling there is bound to be. To cut confusion to a minimum, last week the Army's Temporary Draft Administrator, Lieut. Colonel Lewis B. Hershey, and his associates tried to answer all puzzlers in advance. Some answers...
...reaction against this educational specialization in American universities, Chicago and Columbia have set up survey courses designed to insert a minimum "common content" into the curriculum, and at St. John's College in Maryland the hundred-best-books course has been instituted. At Harvard the reversion to a curricular common denominator has had only faint beginnings. Two years ago a Student Council committee urged "the restoration of a liberal education at Harvard." Most striking proposal of their lengthy report was the suggestion that five "introductory area courses"--two in the humanities, two in the sciences, and one in the social...
Dead giveaway of Adolf Hitler's intention to run his conquered European countries as auxiliaries to a dominant industrial Germany was last week's announcement that minimum tariffs had been "granted" by the French Vichy Government to all German goods entering France or French colonies...