Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...copper developed last December, was solved by finding a loophole in the law: buying copper which had been refined before the law was passed. Navy Men Roosevelt and Edison were also worried, not only because Britain had launched a $7,500,000,000 naval building program but because it was quite possible that Britain might buy 44-hour steel from the U. S. while the U. S. Navy could get no steel. The President had no solution to offer, and next day he put pressure on the steel industry by announcing at his press conference that something must be done...
...goes no future President would be entitled to Franklin Roosevelt's privilege of appointing new members. Thus stripped to its essentials, the bill became merely a means of attaining a temporary political end: of putting enough New Dealers on the Court to secure Franklin Roosevelt's present program from being declared unconstitutional. Most liberals wanted a lot more, not temporary political victory but permanent judicial reform to make it easier in the future for the Federal Government to take such social and economic steps as liberals may want...
Kirby has conducted the London Philharmonic Orchestra in London and brings to Boston College an extensive and varied musical background. He is attempting to introduce into the college glee club a program of better music of the more classical type in line with Glee Club policies sustained so successfully here for the last twenty years. This is his first year as the head of the organization...
...details such as new entrance requirements or a possible 4-year course. In general, however, he favors the recent tightening of entrance requirements, resulting in a smaller first year class and necessitating fewer flunks at the end of that year. This plan will not only allow a more efficient program during the first year, but in cutting the number of failures, will be in itself beneficial. "Too often," Mr. Landis said, "these failures leave a deep scar on their victims, one that never entirely disappears...
...Americas, equally important work has been done in the past year. Mr. J. O. Brew and his expedition, in north central Arizona, found clues throwing light on the history of the Hopi Indians of the Southwest. The present program in this area will, if successful, present a connected picture of the region from the early Christian era to the burning of Awatovi, the ruin now being excavated, in 1700. Into Honduras, near the Maya empire, Harvard and the Smithsonian Institute sent a party which has discovered pottery from Lake Yojoa...