Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Will you, who know everything-or can obtain the information-please tell me whether the great card experts, Culbertson, Work, Sims, etc., play their cards without sorting them into suits? I have several times heard it stated as a fact, but the informer could not give his authority and I doubt...
...permitted to spend too much time in out- side work. There would be much loss borrowing worry over money, for there would be enough financial aid and jobs to go around. The tremendous competition which exists today would be lightened, and the best men would thus be able to obtain the help which they so richly deserve. A healthier attitude toward academic work and college life would inevitably follow. Most important of all, with limitation each poor student admitted would become an individual case, and not just a card in a filing cabinet...
...higher police officers must first pass through the ranks; greater insistence on the educational qualifications of candidates: establishment of a "police college" to train promising younger men on the force. ''It seems to me impossible.'' he wrote, "longer to shirk the problem of how to obtain a steady supply of the best brains from every available source...
...Platt Amendment to the U. S. Army Appropriation Bill of 1901 provided in part: 1) that no foreign power should ever obtain lodgment in or establish control over Cuba. 2) that Cuba should contract no debt for which the revenues were inadequate. 3) that the United States might intervene to preserve independence, order, and Republican government, and to sec that Cuba discharged her obligations to other nations...
Chicago has weakened the morale of its school system by economic deflation, however unavoidable, to the point where its teachers, men and women of discretion, are prepared to use force to obtain the money that is due them. A case of definite class antagonism has arisen, with the political machinery of the ruling class refusing to pay its employees, in this case the teachers, for services rendered. Just such situations as these, Lenin pointed out, are conducive to revolution; and although there is small possibility for armed revolt in the windy city, the government may yet find that...