Word: questioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coal, the Lewis miners at last succeeded in stabilizing their wages & hours to the satisfaction of many an operator who had wearied of wage & price cutting. Whether in doing so they fatally hampered coal in its losing competition with such other fuels as gas and oil, is an economic question which John Lewis does not like to face. What he does believe is that his miners are so indispensable to C. I. O. that a reverse for them would be a reverse for the entire labor cause...
Britain has too many pots on the European fire just now to stir up an Irish stew. Moreover, the British public's appetite for the age-old Irish question has vanished. Of late Britain has been of a mind to let the Irish have anything within reason...
...leather chairs of Kansas City's big Municipal Auditorium, soberly seeking God's guidance in the building of their new, united Methodist Church. In their deliberations there was evident pride in what they were doing, and a homely pood-fellowship which transcended sectional differences. Even the Negro Question, a fearsome lurker, was accidentally hauled out of its dark corner and given a pat on the back...
...Elis were to answer the same question about Hahvud, there would be no difficulty. We would picture the typical Cantab as infected with the bored indifference synonymous with the name of his university, afflicted with the "yahd" accent, his shoulders stooped under the weight of centuries of tradition. We should picture him as a dilletante intellectual addicted to Boston deb parties, who conceives of Cambridge as the hub of the collegiate universe. And then we'd all yell Reinhardt...
...ancient question of the legitimacy of university tutoring has recently been reviewed by the Harvard Crimson and, as the system is conducted there, found to be a definite evil. With a request to other Harvard publications to refuse tutoring school advertisements the Cambridge daily formally declared war on the system in general. . . . Not content with discreet announcements, high pressure advertising is brought into use (but the tutoring schools) inferring that he who studies is a sucker and which includes a cocktail party for freshmen. . . . Having as an example the mild form of the system as it exists here...