Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warm Springs Foundation busily added up the "take" of the President's birthday celebrations, found the total exceeded $1,000,000. Last week, in spite of the spirit of the New Deal, Warm Springs Foundation had not yet got around to giving the public a financial statement of its condition or information on how the money is to be spent...
...compromise solution means the virtual abolition of the degree depends entirely on the departments. It may be that some of the progressive departments will have the courage to declare that the award of the degree will be restricted to really "exceptional cases." But is seems likely that the prevailing spirit of competition for concentrators will lead many of them to recommend for the degree all who have fulfilled the requirements...
...proportion to his official position. So the battle in the streets of Paris rages on but not so merrily as before; the former magnesium-throwing mood has given way to riots which are being conducted in deadly earnest and which are being suppressed in the same spirit. Last night two people were killed when troops fired on the mob in the Place de la Concorde, while frenzied crowds outside the Chamber of Deputies shouted "Resign! Resign...
...emphasis upon duties against privileges which Mr. Chase makes is his really essential point, and while I wish to criticize it in the matter of contents I wish to applaud its spirit. The spectre of our failure which he raises is a spectre which has proved fatal to societies in the past. We think it has proved fatal partly because education has been inadequate. Mr. Chase makes the mistake of supposing that the teacher he pleads for can fulfill his duties adequately. Neither the good clerks nor Mr. Chase's good teachers have or can have any answers or teaching...
...Evanston, Ill. met 250 C. & C. secretaries, State superintendents, mission board members, committee men and women. Dr. Charles Emerson Burton, general secretary, told them how income had gone down, how all the churches seemed prostrate with a "spirit of defeatism." The delegates voted to start a coin-box campaign for "a penny-a-meal-for-missions." But raising money, no matter how much needed, by helping businessmen sell their products, they could not go. The C. & C. church club women voted their protest against "exploitation of the women of the churches" by the Goodwin Plan or any other...