Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...executive board session which erupted last week was called primarily to demand from Homer Martin a report on what he and Harry Bennett, personnel director of Ford Motor Co., were up to together in recent meetings (TIME. Nov. 23, et ante). The Mortimer-Frankensteen faction this week asked a circuit court in Detroit to restrain Homer Martin from consummating an "illegal conspiracy" with Ford "to disrupt the union and establish a company-dominated fake. . . .:' Messrs. Frankensteen and Mortimer suspected that a deal was in the making whereby canny Mr. Bennett would deliver 100,000-odd Ford workers (and union...
...adult citizens; next, Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg or New York City's New Dealing Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, each liked by 11.5%-choices from a list of eight possibilities among whom 38% of the voters declined to choose; not included in the list were such recent Republican celebrities as Ohio's Senator Taft and Governor Bricker, Massachusetts' Governor Saltonstall, Minnesota's Governor Stassen, Pennsylvania's Governor James. (FORTUNE...
Even in the best of times it is not the easiest thing to reach eighty without a bundle of besetting doubts of Things as They Are and at least a modest core of downright skepticism. To have retained poise and serenity and faith against recent developments is an achievement of which Mr. Littauer may well be proud. Boston Transcript...
...first time in recent years, Harvard is to be canvassed by an outside charity organization. The change in Student Council policy which is permitting the Greater Boston Community Fund to appeal with official blessing directly to the University's 13,000 officers, teachers, students, and employees is an indication of the new era of town and gown relationships...
This is Harvard's approach to the problem, following the ideas of the President's recent annual report. By its admission requirements the college helps the schools form their curricula; by its School of Education the University can send out men well trained and aware of the problems ahead. The University cannot dictate to the schools; it can only influence them indirectly, So the findings of the new committee will be eagerly awaited, and may well affect both what Harvard requires of its candidates for admission and what the University will teach prospective school teachers, superintendents and headmasters...