Word: secret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strongly entrenched unions in the University dining halls today threatened to strike unless College officials conceded their demands for higher wages and a closed shop. As a result of a secret, almost unanimous vote late Monday night the cooks and waitresses, who represent 90 percent of Harvard's kitchen workers, decided to walk out on Monday unless the officials capitulate immediately...
...believe that a Department has a collective responsibility and should have a correspondingly collective authority. The administrative affairs should be conducted by a member in whom the staff has the greatest confidence. Therefore, we recommend that the Departmental Chairman, a permanent member of the staff, should be elected through secret ballot, by all members of the Department, and that he should serve a three-year term...
Each Department should set up a committee on appointments and promotion, which should be elected through secret ballot by all members of the Department. . . . The specific powers and duties of the committee should be restricted to investigating and recommending men for appointment, promotion, or termination of appointment, and its jurisdiction should extend to all ranks from assistants up to permanent positions...
...Defoe had been a butcher, hosiery factor, wine importer, government lottery agent, tile manufacturer, South Sea speculator, bankrupt and convict. In 1703 he spent three days in the stocks (see cut) for publishing an annoying political pamphlet. Between jail terms he plumped mightily for freedom of the press, took secret cash handouts from ministers of all parties, acted as informer to governments and Kings...
...patriot is Iwan, idealistic favorite son of a powerful Shanghai banker. Drawn into a secret group of revolutionary students, he organizes an armed corps among the Shanghai silkworkers, narrowly escapes Chiang Kai-shek's blood purge of the Communists in 1927. His father saves his life by exiling him to Japan...