Word: presented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present situation the King and Rumania are doing their very best to hold their own against the forces of destruction that are menacing Europe. In the Polish drama which only recently unfolded itself the King, the Government and the people have won universal praise for the manner in which they have received and helped generously the refugees from the battle areas...
...added a curtain-raiser to Act I, in which he himself appeared in a new role-that of a penny-squeezing pinchfist. Scrimper Roosevelt let it be known he was wearing blue pencils to the stub, slashing $1,000,000,000 of proposed expenditures from the budget he will present in January...
Obstacle. In Manhattan last week David Dubinsky looked back over the history of the C. I. O.-A. F. of L. dispute, found little logic in the present C. I. O. position. Four years ago, when Lewis, Dubinsky, and various progressives in A, F. of L., joined by Sidney Hillman's big, sprawling Amalgamated Clothing Workers,* formed the Committee for Industrial Organization, they did not demand industrial unionism for all A. F. of L. unions. Nor did they set up C. I. O. merely because they disliked individual A. F. of L. leaders, or disapproved of the way some...
...Council, thus protecting the students from being constantly accosted by solicitors. Although it has not made out its budget of this year, the Council plans to donate a large sum to the Red Cross, whose needs this year are most urgent, with two wars and the resulting refugee problems present in Europe. In Cambridge about 7,000 people contributed, helping to raise part of the $400,000 planned for Polish relief. All this is collected in addition to a sizeable sum which is reserved for local relief...
...temporary "war-chest" voted by the Corporation for the present year has merely postponed the Council's fate. With an annual schedule of fifty debates, its expenses total about $200, only a fraction of which can be raised by the newly-instituted membership dues. Unless some way of obtaining funds is found, the Council will be obliged to shut up shop next year--leaving the Coolidge prizes to be awarded to the best debaters on a nonexistent team...