Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Placement Office "hands out" no jobs; at best it brings together prospective employer and employee. In this sense every registrant must shift for himself; the final responsibility for getting a job is his. Those seniors who accept this responsibility will always be guaranteed the sincere efforts of the Placement Office in their behalf and may be reasonably assured of employment after graduation. Donald H. Moyer...
John F. Connolly, of Arlington, has been named to lead the Yard Police Force, it was learned last night. A familiar figure to approximately 35 classes of Harvard men, Connolly has guarded the yard during the day shift with a zeal that has long commended respect from the various law-braking elements in the vicinity of the Square...
...Ohio's 17th stayed with the New Deal and Representative William A. Ashbrook by about 5,000 votes. Last January, Congressman Ashbrook died. Last week his nephew, Byron Baldwin Ashbrook, Democrat, lost a special election to J. (for nothing) Harry McGregor, Republican, by 4,500 votes. The shift...
...Congressional campaign chief, pointed out that the G. O. P. had lost 43 districts in 1938 by less than 3%. The 7% in Ohio's 17th looked as lovely as the first daffodil to Massachusetts' wily Representative Joe Martin, G. O. P. pilot in the House. A shift of 47 seats would place Mr. Martin's plump little frame under the great crystal chandelier† that hangs in the Speaker's office...
...later powers came by narrower squeaks. Ben Cohen's Holding Company Act (after a stormy fight over its famed "death sentence," Section 11) passed the Senate by only one vote. A drastic remedy for bugs like Foshay, plagues like Insull, it aimed to reform the power industry, shift its control from Wall Street back to local managements. But the need for an SEC has never been seriously questioned, was recognized in the Republican platform of 1936. Its powers are really derived from the vast fear and suspicion of Wall Street that exists west of the Hudson. Established, effective, cocksure...