Word: selective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some 20,000 of their colleagues were still on strike, in spite of the President's conference with their employers week before which guaranteed them the "checkoff" system an< union recognitions (TIME, Nov. 6). Before they quit striking, they wanted to be sure that the forthcoming election to select their representatives would be run on the square, that the operators would introduce no "ringers." General Johnson and President Roosevelt agreed to send National Labor Board representatives to Pennsylvania at once to supervise the voting from start to finish. The miners said they would go back to work this week...
Judge Grover Moscowitz opined: "If the bank chose to select as its president a man who was dishonest and a thief, that is not Dr. Butler's fault." He ordered the securities returned. A speech to the Massachusetts Civic League by Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell...
...meeting of freshmen yesterday afternoon in the Linden Street Courts, Coach Cowles got the first year men under way, about 30 men showing up, many of whom have had previous experience at Exeter, Middlesex, Belmont Hill, and other prep schools. Cowles will select a squad of about 20 men from this group in the next few days, and will then reduce the group down to tentative ranking following personal tests...
...following Sophomores have been nominated for the Adams House Committee: Thomas H. Edmands, Robert B. Graves, Lewis Iselin, Richard B. Johnson, Henry V. Poor, John B. Rowland. Elections will be held to select two of these during the week ending November...
...elections held yesterday to select two members for the Lowell House Committee, Charles S. Houston '35 and James W. Tower '35 received a tie vote on the Junior ballot. A second vote to pick one of these men will be held on Tuesday, October 31. The Sophomore member elected was Wilton Snowden Burton '36 of Bronxville, New York...