Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Editorial Board, only Sophomores are eligible, while both Sophomores and Freshmen may compete for the Business Board. The quotas for the News and Photographic Boards have been filled. These spring competitions will last six weeks, or roughly through the Reading Period...
Reader Thornton should recheck his figures. The only Department of Commerce statistical breakdown regarding marine accidents in 1935 is for the period June 30, 1935 to June 30, 1936. According to the Department of Commerce, during that period, 239,816,321 people traveled on U. S. ships. Of these 338 died, 273 by suicide, personal accident, natural causes. The remaining 65 fatalities were among crews. Fact is, no passenger lost his life on a U. S. ship in that time from a preventable cause...
...that the union gained was that these things were put in writing. The union on its part promised not to coerce employes to join, not to permit its members to take part in "any sit-down or stayin strike or other stoppage" in any Chrysler plant for the period of the agreement (one year). Lesser matters were left to further negotiation...
Sugar inspired Ambassador Davis to make the Conference's only much-quoted statement of the week: "I have been on many missions, but this is the sweetest one I have ever had.... If we could only reach one agreement ... it would be important in this crucial period of world history to Democracy . . . showing that 22 nations can sit down and reach some agreement...
...Stalin gets results. Last year he decreed the shutting up tight of previously flourishing Soviet abortion clinics. Last week vital statistics for the first three months of 1937 were ready, showed that for that period the birth rate in Moscow nearly doubled, shot up from 18,246 to 32,632 births. J. Stalin also tightened up the notoriously loose Soviet marriage laws in 1935, and new statistics show that Moscow divorce has declined...