Word: nones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...birthday one day early with a dinner for the "Cuff Link Club"-Roosevelt intimates who have been awarded gold cuff links for faithful service.* On the night of the President's Birthday Balls-to raise funds for the infantile paralysis campaign-he broadcast a personal message but attended none of the seven balls given in Washington. Up to this year the Birthday Balls have been run by old Henry L. Doherty, president of Cities Service Co., one of the most pyramided holding companies ever devised. This year the President apparently realized the paradox, for Mr. Doherty excused himself from...
...built up to limits imposed by the 5-5-3 naval treaties, and since the program already underway was designed merely to catch up with the treaties, what the President asked for last week was a Navy 20% bigger than allowed by the expired treaties, a Navy second to none of the big navies now building. (Most up-to-date naval figures, compiled by FORTUNE for its March issue, are shown in the table below, left...
...modern British audience in hackneyed modern idiom, with no trace of poetry. One speaker dwells upon their disinterestdness; another, on the constitutional necessity of subordinating Church to State; and a third, the theory that Becket virtually committed suicide while in unsound mind. They are meant to sound superficial, but none of them speaks nonsense, and hence the enigmatical complexity of the play is increased...
Stefani, who has often confessed great respect for Lowes and other officers of the University, seem disposed to let matters stand as they were. Denying that any "secret clause" existed, he said that none was necessary. "We can trust them to be on the level," he declared...
...pill was not easy to swallow. For three centuries Harvard has been "the boss," treating its employees in its own way and forcing them to rely on its beneficence. There was good cause for it to resent the intrusion of union leaders into what was seemingly none of their huskiness. But in its long history Harvard has had to distinguish between fads of the moment and trends that have come to stay. In 1776 a royal charter did not prevent the University from recognizing the American Revolution; today tradition has not kept it from hailing this new revolution...