Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Broadway reviewers voted Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire the best new play of the season. Mister Roberts got two votes, Command Decision and Medea one each. The critics then picked Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy as the best foreign play to reach Broadway this season. Neither playwright was on hand to take a bow: Rattigan was home in England; Williams, whose Glass Menagerie had won the prize in 1944-45, was vacationing in Italy...
...Hotel and Club Employees Union (an affiliate of the Hotel Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union, A. F. of L.) expired on the 29th of February, 1948. For two weeks preceding the expiration date, the union and the Club met in almost continuous conference in an attempt to reach a settlement; for 18 days after the expiration date, bargaining continued while the employees remained at work under the conditions provided by the old contract. The maximum offer made by the Club was the extension of the expired contract...
...goal is too modest. Last spring's committee collected $22,000, and sets a record for the highest total and the highest per capita contribution made by any University in the nation. There is no reason why this record cannot be broken. $30,000 should not be beyond the reach of a student body of 12,000. Every students and Faculty member should take the fullest possible advantage of this opportunity to contribute to a major humanitarian cause. At the same time no one should forget that his gift inherently contains potential political force. "The choice," writes an American from...
With the full approval of Dean Bender, who has authorized the drive as a legitimate additional load to the University's annual Council contribution, an organizational dragnet directed by Samuel A. Robbins '46 will try to reach every student, commuter or otherwise before the weeks...
...built the 17-mile-long Hamakua Ditch to bring irrigation to the cane fields. With son Frank, he once swam a flooded gulch in order to get to church. Through such God-fearing boldness, coupled with Yankee-trader shrewdness, the business prospered, became one of the "Big Five"* which reach across the biggest part of Hawaii's economy...