Word: parental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proposal to set up this University as a corporate municipality wrenched out of the heart of its parent city contains some intriguing possibilities for both parties. Frankly, this editorial would be devoted to a discussion of such possibilities were it not for one all-important fact--namely, that the whole affairs is so obviously a smoke-screen conjured up to obliterate the growing sentiment for Plan E government in Cambridge. With this desperate red herring, the Council seeks to delude voters into believing that Harvard is using its vast scholastic tools only as instruments to shield a predatory political influence...
...confidential reports appraising if not attacking the advertised claims of every kind of branded product from mouthwash to maple syrup. Most of these are counted in such big, general groups as the Federal Council of Churches (24,000,000), General Federation of Women's Clubs (2,000,000), Parent- Teacher Association (2,000,000), but many admen would also add the U. S. Government and the nation's schools to their list of potential debunkers.- Last week the American Druggist, Hearst-owned monthly that goes to 43,000 of the 58,000 retail druggists...
...Artillery firing was brought to a close by a demonstration of the latest model 75 mm gun, with which Battery B, 7th F.A., the parent battery of the R.O.T.C., was equipped. During the firing period all men had an opportunity to fire at least three problems. Allen E. Puckett '39 was awarded the Edward Holyoke Osgood Medal for that Harvard R.O.T.C. student who excelled in Conduct of Fire. He was closely pressed by Frank E. Southard, F. S. White, E. R. Clarke and I. Tucker Burr...
...than other high-school youngsters in tests on reasoning ability, but they got the best marks in the State in plane geometry. The authors proudly display in their book the slogan over the doorway to this class : PRIZE THE DOUBT LOW KINDS EXIST WITHOUT. Less enthusiastic was one parent, who complained: "[My daughter] has become too cynical and is given to a great amount of quibbling...
...Original developer of the modern field of personal financing were the Morris Plan banks. Two years ago New York Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora ordered Founder A. J. Morris and four other directors of Industrial Finance Corp., parent of Morris Plan banks, to pay stockholders $400,000 they had made in a side-deal (TIME, Nov. 30, 1936). Last week the Appellate Division unanimously reversed Judge Pecora, found "no dereliction of duty...