Word: portions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alarming portion of young people in Cleveland (where I live) seem rude, insolent and very vague about what is right or wrong. This includes seemingly trivial things: shouting at people walking by, rude jokes about girls, exaggerated "sex-interest," exaggerated "money-consciousness," and disinterest in anything worthier than crime novels, gangster films and certain magazines . . . ADOLF A. PERLES Cleveland...
...Paul Douglas called for a payroll slash. Said he: "When they deal with a problem, they feel the way to meet it is to hire a large number of people ... If three men are needed to do a certain job, they hire twelve to 15. They spend a large portion of their time communicating with each other . . . until finally the chief work of the State Department consists in its members talking to one another...
...Senator, "just can't take the grind any more." Barkley, newsmen were told, hasn't even enough strength left to preside over the daily sessions of the Senate, is forced to pass out the job to other Democratic Senators. Columnist Robert S. Allen dished out a full portion of his own inside dope: "Vice President Barkley is in serious danger of going blind. [He] has advanced cataracts on both his eyes...
...When the President took over the meeting, Secretary Acheson stated the picture, as he saw it, on Korea. The President then turned to me and asked the views of Defense ... A major portion of the evening was taken in the individual, unrehearsed, and unprepared and uncoordinated statements of the several Chiefs and Secretaries ... I was rather proud of them that night...
During the banquet Dean David will also report to the alumni. The report is expected to include details about the disposal of a portion of the $10,000,000 the Business School raised last year...