Word: term
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...exchanging students, and by sending economic aid, Economic aid should not come on a Marshall Plan basis, however, Wolf was quick to point out, but should be sent through private investments. By doing so the United States could bring about what Wolf called multilateral world trade. This term means that once Indonesia received help to get on its economic feet it could buy European exports and in turn self its own products to Europe. Increased trade with the United States would also be a result of multilateral world trade...
Early in the term, the president of the Radcliffe chapter of the American Youth for Democracy refused to turn in a membership list to the Radcliffe Dean's Office. She claimed that because membership in undergraduate political organizations was inscribed on a student's permanent college record, the chances of future employment for RAYD members would be imperiled. If the RAYD persisted in refusing to turn in its list, it would lose its charter, since college rules require every organization to submit names of members each term...
After working on the problem for a number of weeks, the Radcliffe Student Council came up with a proposal on Monday which tried to satisfy both the administration and the RAYD. This proposal is that membership lists be submitted each term, but that only the names of club executives go down in the permanent record, the rest of the names being destroyed by the Dean at the end of the year...
There is one employer who always checks the record, and that is the United States Government. The fact that a girl was once a member of a "subversive" organization would probably bar her from a federal job, even if she had joined the group for only one term...
...future, many girls will hesitate before joining that organization. In that measure, the Radcliffe authorities would be unwittingly aiding the enemies of free political choice and belief. It is quite possible that the RAYD could not muster enough members willing to risk their careers to hold a charter this term, or next term, or sometime in the future. The RAYD would simply be forced out of existence...