Word: phi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Phi Beta Kappa has altered its election program to choose 40 instead of 25 of the Senior class after General examinations records...
...changed to a pyramid. Broad base was a seven-man board which would carry on the routine duties of code administration. No sooner had these seven members been appointed than statisticians found that four were lawyers, five were in Who's Who, three were economists, two had Phi Beta Kappa keys, two had been bankers, two were tycoons. The oldest was 55, the youngest 28. Most of the members of the new National Industrial Recovery Board were NRA alumni...
...call himself well-educated" until he has seen how the other fellow lives. If every captain of industry had to spend an occasional stretch in the ranks. If every Washington brain-truster had to earn his living for a time with his hands instead of his mouth, if every Phi Bete has to earn a portion of his college fees--how much better off all would...
...compare in difficulty with those for Britain's famed Civil Service (in which the candidate may be required to discuss anything from the causes of British hostility to Russia, 1815-1878, to the proposition, "The ballad is not literature"), but they are stiff enough to baffle most bright young Phi Beta Kappas. Cautious candidates commune with Mr. Roudybush for four months before attempting them. Confident candidates take the examinations first, often commune with Mr. Roudybush afterward for a second try. Each year 75 to 100 aspiring diplomats pay $225 apiece for the privilege. His school, now housed in a three...
Aside from press blasts, two public utterances helped to turn the tide of labor sentiment and end the general strike. One came from General Johnson, after his "conversion" by Mr. Neylan. Said he at Berkeley where he went to receive a Phi Beta Kappa key from the University of California: "The right of dissatisfied men to strike against a recalcitrant employer is inviolate. . . . But the general strike is quite another thing. It is a threat to the community. It is a menace to the Government. It is civil war. . . . When the means of food supply-milk to children, necessities...