Word: needless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deeds's House Party. Every spring vacation favored fraternity brothers & girl friends were invited to the Deeds Dayton home. Only partially apocryphal stories say that there each couple was furnished with riding horses, chauffeur and car, pilot and airplane. Able son of an able father, likable "Chuck" was, needless to say, quite popular. Nearly omniscient TIME, still with eyes turned slightly eastward, brings to light many a Yarvard yarn, fails to see many a Siwash romance. CAREY CRONEIS Chicago...
Heretofore, each candidate had to show a reading knowledge of both French and German. This knowledge was tested by oral examinations given at odd times to the candidates. The English department felt that this involved needless inefficiency and decided to give the examinations to all candidates at stipulated times in writing. These tests will be given for the first time in January, and they will supersede all other similar ones. The department has also announced that no previous examinations or other substitutes will meet the requirement...
...time of trouble, this lack of attention to the most important branch of government in our country, for so many years, is having serious results. The taxpayer is revolting against the needless burden he has been required to bear. New local governments are made to assume new and costly services, including unemployment relief on an unprecedented scale and yet operate with reduced taxes. Many medicine men are prescribing aids for the local government in the form of state or federal assistance. It is, however, possible for citizens to organize effectively enough to bring about good local government in their city...
...Needless to say, upon expiration of my present subscription no renewal will be effected unless utter satisfaction is obtained...
...State of Prussia who gave the orders. Just about the time Dr. Bracht boomed "Shoot to kill!" the Berlin Traffic Co. notified 1,000 of its 22,000 striking employes that they are definitely fired and will never get their jobs back. The 1,000 firings made it needless to fire shots. Cowed strikers came back to work. Since Berlin was carried by Communists in the national elections (TIME, Nov. 14) Dr. Bracht, onetime Mayor of Essen, doubtless felt that his super-drastic order had been justified. It is not his first...