Word: succession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Depression having reached the normal phase of protest strikes against pay cuts and layoffs, Akron rubber workers last week reacted with enthusiasm and a surprising measure of success. Following depression in the motor industry, 37½ percent of the 40,000 normally employed in Akron by Goodyear, Goodrich, Firestone and General rubber companies were out of work. Like their C. I. O. brothers in Michigan, members of the United Rubber Workers of America complain that they are getting the short end of retrenchment. Young, levelheaded U. R. W. President Sherman Dalrymple accuses the companies of demoting foremen and other supervisors...
...President Green last week at last resigned from C. I. O.'s United Mine Workers-before they threw him out. But soon he found one subject on which he could crow over C. I. O. Said he: "I congratulate the union printers of the nation on their success in removing ... a termite president...
Preparation for this last milestone depends as much on the individual as on the tutor; it is a general exam covering the entire special field. Failure means that another and different exam must be taken as a Senior; success means that the concentrator will write a thesis and undergo an oral the next year on the century in which his thesis falls. Some members expressed the desire of seeing questions in the Junior divisional based more on a synthesis of history and literatures, with the marking adjusted to this basis...
...weeks ago a cable was sent Harvardmen Joseph Siegel, Milton Wiener, Clifford Washburn, and Homer Chase who are fighting in the war-torn area. Received yesterday from the volunteers: "Wish you great success in attempt to emulate last year's humanitarian venture...
Sullivan's biography does not bring to light any new material about Newton, and he draws freely on other biographers. But Sullivan was fascinated by the human being which harbored such a magnificent mind, and from the available material he tried to draw, with fair success, a clearer picture of the 17th Century's greatest scientist as a person...