Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actually the rules were not changed. The credentials committee simply stalled. Efforts to spur the committee to action were futile, though so strenuous at one time that Bill Green broke his gavel pounding for order. Apparently the plan was to stall until Typographer Howard departed for the gathering of C. I. O. leaders this week in Atlantic City, where, as Mr. Howard observed dryly, he usually took a vacation "at this time of year...
...Atlantic Monthly (circ. 105,250) last month, Herbert Hoover recommended a plan for getting his party out of the doldrums: a mid-term Republican National Convention to be held during the next year. Last week, Chairman John Daniel Miller Hamilton announced that his Republican National Committee would meet in Chicago next month to consider seriously what good such a convention would do, decide whether to hold...
...Conant's plan provides the student with an educational impetus that will stir him long after his formal education is completed. The existence of a well defined program for independent work will do much to overcome the confusion and mental paralysis that seize men after graduation. Such study will both increase the value of what has gone before and provide another "open door" to the exploitation of new fields. The interaction between sustained study and everyday experience should produce a new and useful synthesis...
Although only three undergraduates took advantage of the offer of the special rates on the train going down to Baltimore under the auspices of the Boston Harvard Club, backers of the plan are going ahead enthusiastically and declared last night that their plans were succeeding...
...addition to the three undergraduates the 115 members of the band and an additional 35 or so of Harvard graduates are going down on the train, and this number is enough to ensure financial success of the plan...