Word: program
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would like to erase is that the Alliance wants to perpetuate Relief. He and his board declared: "Those whom we represent do not desire to help pile up Government deficits: do not desire to remain on the Government payroll one day longer than necessary. . . . We . . . understand that a works program and relief alone cannot solve our economic problems or end unemployment and insecurity. Such Government aid can but mitigate the suffering...
Although $237,000 has been spent to date on Filipino fares, both Immigration officials and California Labor regard the repatriation program as a flop. Remaining in the U. S. are 120,000 low-paid Filipino farm workers, houseboys, janitors, cooks. Half are in California, 97% are bachelors about 30 years old. "The boys," explained Dr. Hilario C. Moncado, president of the Filipino Federation of America, "do not want to go back without money or assurance they will earn a living." Another good reason is that in some cases boys are loathe to leave a country where, as a California judge...
Later the group will take up the question of setting up, in conjunction with the Debating Council, the organization of this year's program of inter-House debating...
Started last spring with competition between the Yard dormitories in tennis and softball, the program was considered highly successful as 136 Yardlings competed on the diamond and 50 on the courts...
...Harvard, the intramural program has an added value. More than any number of House Dinners and High Tables it lends to the development of the cohesiveness and community spirit that President Lowell so hopefully envisioned in the Houses...