Word: recession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...positions are to be filled and the first place winner will be permitted to accompany the club on the Christmas vacation tour. As is the custom each year, the Instrumental Clubs make an extensive concert tour during the Christmas recess, visiting several large eastern and mid-western cities where they are entertained by prominent Harvard alumni after their concerts...
...nondescript houses, even three-decker wooden tenements, eating at one-armed lunches, seeking only little sets of personal acquaintances, often very narrow ones, and tutors except professionally or at a starched reception. Such were the conditions which prompted Professor George Pierce Baker to observe with praiseworthy candor one Easter recess, when a party of us were joiting up to Chocorua in the most accomodating of all accommodation trains: "Parents suppose when they send their boys to Harvard that they are sending them to college. What they are really doing is sending them out into the world." The chill isolation...
Only female M. P. to sit through the entire afternoon, night and morning debate was Miss Ethel Bentham (Laborite). After less than two hours' recess, the House convened again as the Committee of Supply, voted down a motion by Sir Austen Chamberlain to censure the Government for failing to alleviate unemployment. In the stodgy debate which followed (but got nowhere), Prime Minister MacDonald announced that, on the basis of a proposal by Liberal Leader David Lloyd George, the Liberal and Labor parties will pool their "best brains" in a conference to devise "work schemes." Efforts had been made to induce...
Chamber and Senate last week passed legislation to increase duties by weight instead of ad valorem on imported motor cars (TIME, April 21). The Chamber later carried a Government motion waiving the usual six-week Easter recess, compelling Parliament to sit and sweat over a complex social insurance bill already debated to distraction...
...year thus far when it rowed the mile and three-quarters course in the Basin Saturday in nine minutes and 20 seconds. The previous course record of nine minutes and 30 seconds, but five seconds worse than that set by Princeton a year ago, was made during the April recess...