Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herbert Bayard Swope, onetime editor of the defunct New York World, last week marched into President Roosevelt's office to keep an appointment for luncheon at the Presidential desk. The President, at work on a large official document, did not seem quite his usual cheerful self. Spotting the paper before the President as a Federal income tax blank, Mr. Swope calculated that under the revenue bill which the President had Congress pass last summer, the tax on Franklin D. Roosevelt's $75,000 salary could hardly figure out less than...
...little ones, each with individual franchises, terminals, routes. Each will continue to act as a separate unit, run only its own busses. But all busses will be painted a common cream & maroon, bear a common name, issue through tickets on each others' lines, will therefore to the public seem identical in function with Greyhound. Only difference will be that Trailway riders will change busses frequently, no great disadvantage because bus riders constantly have to get out anyway...
...these days of inflated governmental functions the privately-endowed, and of course administered, university is definitely on the defensive. It's excuse for existence, it would seem, is the superiority of most organizations managed by private initiative. A board of trustees, with its continuity of ideals and policies, is obviously better fitted to deal with the complexities of education than a preoccupied and constantly shifting legislature. The independence that goes with private endowment has enabled this university and others of its kind to experiment in fields where the publicly-owned college would hesitate to venture. Harvard's pioneer work with...
...apart from this I must apologize for the purely local colour which events at Cambridge (ENG.) seem to have borne during the last week, and for the lack of matter in even so short a letter as this. We will both have better luck next week I hope...
...explanation of this is not so difficult as it might seem for at the time the diploma was granted to him Locke was president of the College and so naturally did not sign his own sheepskin. The Follows and the Treasurer were the only signatories...