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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into a monopoly held by the inter-House committee and touched off an argument of magnificent proportions. Last week, under Student Council guidance, representatives of the inter-House Social Committee and the Union Committee agreed to agree. Although some knotty problems still face the two groups, they should reach a speedy concurrence o forestall further friction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Counterpoint | 11/14/1947 | See Source »

Under the overall generalship of Charles H. Sammond, Jr. '48, a three-pronged campaign has been organized to hit all members of the College in an attempt to reach the Council's ultimate goal of $25,000. The Houses, the Yard, and the commuters will be three centers of effort, each division of the drive under the leadership of a separate chairman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Service Fund Drive Reorganized as $18,900 in Cash, Pledges Fails Goal | 11/13/1947 | See Source »

Bringing up the rear, at least in the total amount of money collected, is the drive through the mails to reach commuting students. From them, a three-man committee under the leadership of Robert J. Maier '48 has gathered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Service Fund Drive Reorganized as $18,900 in Cash, Pledges Fails Goal | 11/13/1947 | See Source »

...sharpest advertising talent to help sell his food-conservation campaign, last week was still plugging his favorite theme. He crowed jubilantly: "We are rolling. The people are picking this up." And he added a flat prediction. Around Jan. 1, he said, the Save-Food program for Europe will reach its 100-million-bushel goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Still Rolling | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...Cripps could dangle before British workers no carrot in the form of more food and consumer goods, what incentives would they have to greater effort? Cripps last month said: "It has never yet been worked out how far a donkey will walk after a carrot permanently held beyond its reach, but there must be a limit to that form of stimulation." Cripps believes in a higher incentive "[We can succeed] only if each one of us puts the interest of our country first and his personal interest a bad second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Government by Governess | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

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