Word: modelings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plans for the Model League of Nations Conference which is scheduled for March here in Cambridge this year are in the hands of the Liberal Club. They will make the arrangements with the different colleges, obtain rooms for them, and arrange the details of their visit. Malcolm S. Knowles, vice-president of Phillips Brooks House, is assisting in the preparations. The club considers the meeting this spring extremely important due to the complications abroad...
...blanket code, wages were boosted to 30? an hour. "We accepted 30? an hour for what we hoped would be a very brief period in order to get the Blue Eagle," explained Mr. Neilson. Asked about Alcoa-owned Bauxite, Ark., Mr. Neilson described it as a "model mining town" with "excellent sanitary conditions," but admitted that the houses had no plumbing...
...goes the old adage, but you cannot tell him much. For true erudition of this variety, Professor Kittredge knows no poor. Not long ago the noted Shakespearean scholar was attending a Gilbert and Sullivan opera. Behind him, in Row J, Seat 15, sat an elderly lady; the very model of a Savoyard aunt or mother-in-law; one whom time had passed by in its fast flight, and left in the twilight of bygone days, a little unknowing. After the first act, she remarked to her companion, "It is lovely, isn't it? I wonder what Mr. Sullivan is composing...
...great as foreign correspondents would like to believe. Matters hung in a balance for 48 hours. Prince von Starhemberg issued dark threats of what he would do if the Government "did not live up to its promises"-said promises being apparently an out & out Fascist dictatorship on the Italian model. Unperturbed, little Millimetternich continued to pray, then sketched in tentative outline his plans for the new Constitution: The parliamentary system will be greatly modified, not wholly abolished. Above both chambers of Parliament will be placed a Council of State of some 20 members to be appointed by the President...
...month for himself and gives the rest to his work. He runs three social settlements, aids a leper colony, maintains a research bureau, heads a great organization of consumers', producers' and credit cooperatives. Many a Japanese, including himself, wears a "Kagawa suit" which costs $3 (winter model) or $1.35 (summer). Kagawa founded the Farmer-Peasant Party, has sat in the Japanese Diet as its only outspoken radical. The Government used to put him in jail for helping strikers and stirring up the populace. He would smile amiably, preach to anyone who listened, continue writing books. Like the Mahatma...