Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Durant has explained the present rate as being calculated only to pay the wages of two "superannuated" watchmen, who, he says, would otherwise be used in the Houses. The support of these men, however, would not require the relatively high rate that the University charges...
...farewell to too great idealism on matters of education. Realism to us is more important. For proposals and measures that are premised on a university full of super-scholars we promise ridicule, while we shall support any move towards giving the average man a better education. Rigidity in scholastic requirements is in itself a form of idealism, and every possible increase in flexibility, every real recognition of the difference between the exceptional and the usual student will receive our unqualified approval. Finally, we hold it nonsensical to attack those institutions which have made Yale what it is, however uneducational some...
...lastly, it is an emphatic farewell to political conservatism. During the past year the "News" has knelt at the shrine of the classical economy; although we shall leave it, particularly in our general support of the Roosevelt administration, we have nothing but respect for that position and its ilk. It is for the unthinking stick-in-the-muds that our censure is reserved. The "News" has long made every attempt to arouse student interest in public affairs. That battle is almost won. But interest is not enough-at least, not passive interest. We are determined to be an unmitigated nuisance...
North Dakota. Last summer popular Republican Governor William Langer was sentenced to prison, ousted from office for forcing Federal relief workers to contribute to his political support (TIME, July 30, et ante). In November the Republicans split with the result that a small-town newspaper editor named Thomas Hilliard Moodie was elected second Democratic Governor in the State's history...
...utility." Before it subscribed to the Washington Plan in 1924, Potomac Electric was a constant thorn in the side of Congressional utility baiters, who very nearly succeeded in passing a bill to dam the Potomac River above Washington and sell public power to public servants. They even gained the support of the Washington Chamber of Commerce and Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover...