Word: senior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guild officers talked until 2 or 3 a. m. While her husband, Franchot Tone, backed up President Montgomery with telling arguments, Second Vice President Joan Crawford knitted away like a Madam Defarge, occasionally stiffening the men's backbones with her cry: "We strike!" Meantime the Guild's senior members were being polled, voting overwhelmingly for a strike if negotiations broke down. In prospect was the extraordinary spectacle of the cinema's top celebrities marching in picket lines outside studios and theatres. Stuntmen and cowboy actors prepared to organize a troop of 300 horsemen for picketing...
...subject is the appointment of an administrative instructor, relieved of his research quota to devote his time to standardizing the work in sections and to seeing that each week's work is related to the one before and after it. This position could be shifted among the senior instructors lest any one become stale. Professor Burbank, now overbusy could give his full time to his own course, to the Littauer School, and to the administration of the department, while a system of teaching that is at its best bizarre might become edifying...
Coach "Buck" Walsh's first boat has six Juniors and two Sophomores. Because of the dearth of "N" winners in the present Senior class it was necessary to elect a Junior as captain. A. B. Yeats holds this position and rows at number six, while other "N" winners, G. A. Whiteside and V. E. Schumacher, row at five and stroke. These three rowed with last year's Varsity while the other three Juniors, P. G. Schultz at bow, J. L. Erickson at two, and G. C. Gullard at three are J. V. veterans. The two '39 representatives...
...favorably disposed toward Senator Byrnes's proposal of a flat 10% cut in all appropriations except fixed charges (interest on public debt, veterans' pensions, Government contracts). But on the eve of the President's departure for Texas and tarpon, Missouri's Clarence Cannon, the senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, paid a White House visit. Returning to the Capitol, he promptly sponsored a 132-word resolution simply "impounding" 15% of all appropriations for fiscal 1938 and providing that "no amount so impounded and set aside shall be available for obligation unless and until released...
...school to admit that it might be thinking of steamship fare as well as moral principles was rich Harvard, which announced that "if any senior member of the faculty happens to be in Germany about June 30 he will be designated as the Harvard delegate." The University of Pennsylvania, which had earlier accepted Gottingen's invitation, last week withdrew its acceptance when its representative changed his summer plans...