Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...punch to the Premier's pronouncement came two moves in rapid succession. A five-billion franc defense loan, arranged by Finance Minister Paul Marchandeau, was oversubscribed a few hours after the lists opened to the public. An Air Ministry announcement revealed that France will begin her two-year plan of air force rearmament with the purchase of 100 fast Curtiss pursuit planes, ordered in the U. S. last week. And the general staff last week ordered the recruiting of an additional 60,000 native troops in Tunisia, thus bringing France's North African army to a total...
...began to send missionaries into the rural districts to establish secular schools. A constitutional amendment in 1934 gave the Government control of all primary and secondary education, directed that it should be socialistic. Today, despite the bitter opposition of the Roman Catholic Church to the new educational plan, Mexico has some 23,000 secular schools with more than 2,000,000 students getting no religious instruction; 86% of its primary schools are supported by the Federal or State Governments. All these schools preach "the doctrine of economic interdependence and social service," various shades of socialism. Children attend them...
Winding up its year's activities with a banquet at the Faculty Club last night, the Debating Council discussed plans for next year and heard that the Student Council has endorsed the Council's plan for inter-House debating, a program in which 192 men have expressed their desire to participate...
Keynote of the evening was approval of the House plan, already approved by all House Committees and all but one Master. Guest speakers were Rodman W. Paul '36, Assistant Dean, Paul Reardon '32, Richard H. Sullivan '39, newly elected president of the Student Council, and Irving Murray...
...writing of the House debating plan, Robert M. Ravven '39, Chairman of the Dudley House Committee, said, ". . . . there remain a large number, not so interested in athletics, lacking sources of contact with members of the other houses. We feel that the proposed plan . . . would appeal especially to many of this group...