Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Motion Pictures and Youth (Macmillan), of which the 7th fat black volume appeared in November. This winter the M. P. R. C. has been getting ready for the second phase of its program-to persuade or compel the cinema industry to produce better (i. e. more moral) pictures. First step was to acquire active officers with influential names. Last month Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, who had headed the Council after the death of John Grier Hibben, stepped up and out of the picture by becoming honorary president. To succeed him as president, the Council elected Mrs. August Belmont, who before...
Anyone who at this time could step in and curb the prevailing war psychology which is becoming increasingly popular should immediately be considered a "Man-of-the-Year" candidate. The article "Munitions Men," TIME. March 5, was a masterful article, chock-full of facts, an article which should entitle the author to "Man-of-the-Year" honors if widely enough circulated and read to have effect...
...actions. Authority for the guarantee was contained in emergency legislation. The delay in issuing a formal order was only an oversight. Most of Canada quietly took him at his word. Nevertheless, revelation of the Government's new interest in C. P. R. seemed to bring one step nearer that inevitable day when Canadian Pacific and Canadian National will be merged into a single transport system spanning two oceans and a continent...
...Christ, and it does not seem fitting that this club, which so prides itself in its membership, should choose this particular week for its production. If there are to be standards in college, it is the duty of those who represent the upper class to set them. If no step is taken to keep up these standards, one can expect them to go own. (Name withheld by request...
...announcement of the Loewenstein Fellowship marks the first practical step toward the easing of the path which connects college with the public service. The American political system, based upon party pyramids, has made it necessary for the college graduate to waste his most valuable years in routine party boot-licking, a task sufficiently unpleasant to drive any thoughts of a public career from the minds of many talented young men. This new fellowship proposes to bridge the gap between study and political activity by enabling the student to gain practical experience and the all-important contacts while he is still...