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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trouncing big Standard Oil of New Jersey, Socony-Vacuum and three smaller companies with tanker fleets was the task taken on by National Maritime Union's tough, rock-fisted President Joe Curran. From Galveston to Portland his pickets patrolled the docks, laid up 75 slick, oil-toting tubs. Purpose: to persuade the lines to increase wages and prefer union men for jobs. Because 14 other companies were willing to dicker, their tankers continued to run without hindrance and the Atlantic Seaboard faced no oil shortage comparable to that threatening in coal (see p. 18). For most people, a surprising...
...sensation of the week. Moscow's radio laconically announced shortly before midnight one night that Comrade Litvinoff had been relieved of his job at "his own request." The Commissar, it was explained later, was ill, had been suffering from heart disease. His job would henceforth be taken by Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, President of the Council of People's Commissars, a member of the all-powerful Political Bureau of the Communist Party, right-hand man to Dictator Joseph Stalin for some 15 years...
Eventually, thinks Dr. Bernheim, all doctors will band together and practice in clinics, and this streamlined system of medical care will in itself bring greater specialization and raise the quality of service. Once this great step is taken, he believes it will make little difference in a doctor's professional life whether the patient or the government pays the doctor's bill...
Unethical because it is cynically used to get out of work. It is a lazy man's short-cut to a diploma, a method of cheating for a Harvard degree. Unethical, too, because of the gross commercialization which has taken tutoring far beyond its legitimate limits, which has created a false and unhealthy demand where one should not exist...
Since the days when President Eliot revolutionized the academic world with the elective system, Harvard has taken pride in allowing her sons to follow their own bent down the paths of learning. As a result the uniformity which a thorough grounding in the classics gave the Harvard graduate of thirty years ago has disappeared. Now Harvard turns out physicists, chemists, and social scientists, whose only common bond is the proven ability to swim 50 yards...