Word: monro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remained for Pennsylvania-Central's President C. Bedell Monro to epitomize, in his own person, the predicament of the airlines-and the industry. Monro took twelve pages of testimony to tell the commission that his shaky line needed a Government handout, and fast. But nothing the Government could do was fast enough for Monro. After he got back from testifying, his principal creditors got together and eased him out of the presidency. Operations Manager J. H. ("Slim") Carmichael, 40, onetime pilot, was upped into...
Counsellor for Veterans John U. Monro '34 said yesterday that the ledger-card system in the schools where there is no monitoring of classes would let the VA know when a man has left the University. He added that the system will be considered for the other graduate schools but would not be necessary for the College...
...Monro said yesterday that Harvard, along with other universities, protested the requirement because "it would complicate enormously the paper work on veteran students and also would impose on the university a rigid and undesirable attendance policy...
After a hasty trip to Washington last spring and hours of negotiation with the VA, Monro and his counterparts from other colleges succeeded in having the rule withdrawn. In its stead, however, the VA issued a new regulation which makes the University obligated to notify the VA "immediately when . . . the veteran ceases to be in attendance...
...Monro declared that the ledger-card system was approved by the Law School and Graduate School Dean's Offices as the "machinery which would cause the least nuisance all around" in meeting the obligation...