Word: sidesteps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Student Council's annual report. Patently, the depression has increased the number of men who must earn all or part of their college, expenses, and has made it inversely difficult for them to find employment either within or outside the University. The administration's somewhat ineffectual attempt to sidestep the whole question of employing students in the dining halls by the creation of special and often artificial jobs has been of some help in the past year; but now for every four applications to the Student Employment Bureau, but one can be filled...
...there would have been no question of the election of his alternate and chief adviser, Boston-born Lawyer Leon Fraser, Reparations expert at the birth of the Young Plan in 1929. In February B. I. S. directors so moved and appointed him (TIME. Feb. 27). But what about the sidestep of the U. S. from the gold standard? Last week's meeting silenced the quibblers and ratified Mr. Fraser's election. This was no insult to gold-standard France, simply a compliment to able Banker-Lawyer Fraser...
Strictly Dishonorable (Universal). Between the necessities of being naughty to please the audience and nice to please the censors, lies a great void. Into this void flop most of Hollywood's attempts to be sophisticated. Universal Pictures made a valiant try to sidestep the flopping process in this production by sidestepping sophistication. When Preston Sturges wrote the play he invented a heroine who spent a good deal of time during the story trying to be seduced, but the movies, true to their glorious traditions of U. S. womanhood, calmly purified...
...Beginning was the decisive battle in the Federal Government's long campaign to put Alphonse ("Scarface" to strangers; "Snorkey" to friends) Capone in prison. For three years the Government had waged its campaign, spent over $195,000 on it. For almost as long Gangster Capone had been trying to sidestep charges that he failed to pay a Federal tax on $1,038,654 income during the years 1924?29. Now Scarface Snorkey was on trial...