Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result last year was that the Student Council, which controls all things political among the Yardlings, conservatively postponed the elections for one month, by that token acknowledging the use of class officials to be negligible. This year the development of the Union Committee should be carried to its logical conclusion with the total abolition of the elections. The members of the Union Committee are well chosen, representing nearly all the halls, both private and public schools, commuters and residents, the East and the West. Until the time, which will come with Student Council elections in the spring of the Sophomore...
...front page of the San Francisco Chronicle early this month appeared an insulting blob of black type. In it Executive Editor Paul C. Smith announced imperatively that he was fed up with a dispute between San Francisco warehouse operators and C. I. O. warehousemen-the negotiators were bungling, and the C. I. O. members should return to work until the "hot" car that caused the dispute cooled off. The International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union dared him to take a hand. He accepted...
Save in Maine, which held its election last month, and to the one-party Southern States where elections are mere formalities, the eardrums of the U. S. suffered last week as much as Pennsylvania's. With election day but a fortnight away the magnavox of Politics blared from every stump and hilltop, filling the air with civic sense and nonsense, but most of all with partisan fury...
Many requisitioned busses bringing flower-bedecked soldiers back to Berlin from Sudetenland were inscribed: "The War is Over!" Also released to civilian life were the Labor Service youths, detained an extra month to work on Germany's counter-Maginot line facing France. These fortifications, heretofore called by U. S. correspondents the Siegfried Line, were last week officially christened Limes* by the Führer himself...
From Breclav, now the German Lundenberg, 204 Jews were expelled by Austrian Nazis fortnight ago. For a few days, food was sent from Sudeten towns. Then a desperate Jewish mother smuggled her six- month-old child back into Breclav and the Germans cut off all food. "We are lying beneath hedges," a Jewish mother, big with child wrote to Prague. "We have no money and our only clothing is what we were wearing when we were expelled...