Word: portions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provision of N. R. A. at stake is no minor portion of the recovery legislation. True, that insistence on the right of labor to organize in non-company unions may not be as important to business revival as certain other measures. Nevertheless, it would be a distinct step backward in our progressive legislation if labor is to be abandoned to the mercies of company unionism...
...question of decision or no-decision debates is merely a minor problem for Harvard debating. The larger factors to be considered are, first, some sort of adequate endowment or provision of funds for debating, and, second, an increased student interest in debating activities. Public speaking has become a vital portion of every man's education, and debating offers the opportunity to learn to speak while studying major questions of national interest. Charles B. Fethlemen...
Well, I am going to tell you of how a portion of that large amount was saved as regards the maids, biddies, goodies, or amazons (which ever you prefer.) In a recent editorial of your paper you spoke of "sweeping economy (with or without dust.) It was very well done and was greatly appreciated by us all. But you haven't all the facts and when I speak I think I represent the greater majority of maids. Right here I will agree that if some of them had only three boys to care for they wouldn't do it properly...
...expense of a project to supply commuters with suitable quarters is the most important consideration. The University should not be expected to bear the entire burden but should rightly insist that some portion of the total expense should be borne by those benefitting. A not unreasonable expenditure could be made by the University's contribution of a building for the use of the commuters. The maintenance of the quarters could be delegated to those who make use of them without any great burden to those concerned...
...Combat demagogues with demogoguery" is a political axiom which the intelligent portion of this country has long neglected. Amused by the obvious imbecility of Long, Coughlin, or Townsend, yet considerably frightened by the tremendous effect of these orators on what they consider "the people of no importance," the intelligentsia have not departed from time-honored tactics. Yet these tactics have failed. No longer can a man be laughed out of existence when he holds the secret to Kingdom Come for the common people...