Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...performance of these grown men, for whom the combination of a war uniforn and an officer's badge proved so intoxicating. Now that the annual game of Cops and Robbers is over and the cops have won, the undergraduate body would like a bit of peace and quiet...
WASHINGTON--In an apparent attempt to strengthen the New Deal's fight against acute agricultural conditions, and quiet mounting criticism of Administration Farm legislation, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace late today ordered sweeping personnel and administrative changes in his department...
Ground for this charge is that David Lasser lately has preferred quiet negotiation to violent demonstration. In the Alliance's executive board's report at Cleveland, President Lasser and his 25 colleagues claimed credit for: a raise in Southern relief minima from $21 to $26 per month; sufficient Federal relief funds to care for the present peak of 3,102,000 WPAsters (see col. 1); a growing respect for the Alliance in Congress. David Lasser's next demands on Harry Hopkins and Congress will be a 20% increase in WPA wages, to bring them up to local...
...Treaty of Friendship which was presently signed, but has never become operative. Reason: By a covering agreement this treaty cannot come into force until substantial numbers of Italian troops have been withdrawn from Spain. Thus last week there was good reason to think Lady C. has just spent a quiet month in Rightist Spain mainly to give Generalissimo Franco some idea of how much it would help her brother-in-law and the cause of Peace if a few thousand Italians could conveniently be sent home...
...from the University of Illinois, where he taught Political Science for the following two years. He came to Harvard in 1915 as an instructor in Government, is now a professor. In 1927 he succeeded Chester Noyes Greenough as Dean of Harvard College, and continues to maintain a quiet and gracious dignity in University Hall...