Word: reports
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Happy Days. These prodigious labors (and enough more to fill dozens of close-set-columns in CCC's last annual report) were performed by young men, poor, not gilded. They had to be poor to get in the corps. In fiscal 1938, arrivals at over 1,500 CCCamps included 253,776 needy, unemployed, unmarried "junior enrollees" from 17 to 23; 17,707 war veterans unlimited by age or marital status; 9,500 Indians on Government reservations; 4,800 indigent Territorials in Alaska, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Virgin Islands...
Emphasizing in his report the important role of the consultants who will be drawn from public service for work in the new school, Dean Williams said, "It is the consultantship program which most clearly differentiates the work of the School from the more usual sort of instruction in the social sciences...
Worried that the house of Harvard may be in a state of disorder similar to that of the secondary schools, Dean Hanford considers in his annual report a new plan of concentration for the Plan B student. He recognizes that like most colleges, Harvard, in striving to educate the scholarly and non-scholarly at the same time, faces a dichotomy almost insoluble. Perhaps, he says, the traditional system encourages too much specialization from the men who prefer a general education to a degree with honors. Yet he points out that the needs of those preparing for graduate study and those...
...world determined to keep the others from knowing what they are up to, nowadays a foreign correspondent's job is tough. One correspondent who has had his share of trouble is Minnesota-born Frank L. Kluckhohn of the New York Times. He was the first to report direct German and Italian aid to General Franco. After several months it became impossible for him to file stories from Rebel Spain. Then the Times sent Kluckhohn to Mexico City...
Last week, when Correspondent Kluckhohn returned to Mexico City from St. Louis, where his first child had been born, he called on the Department of Publicity and Propaganda for comment on a report that Mexico was trying to sell bartered German goods to other Latin American countries. Mr. Kluckhohn was told to come back in an hour. When he went back, accompanied by a U. P. man who was after the same story, he was told to wait while the U. P. man was called upstairs. When Kluckhohn tired of waiting, he started to leave. Two guards grabbed him, hustled...