Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reforms, inaugurated by Leonard D. White, retired Civil Service Commissioner and his successor, Samuel H. Ordway '21, are the third stop in a series designed to draw recruits from a wider field and to open government service to those trained in the Social Sciences and Public Administration. Government Department members have expressed approval of these reforms...
...Teachers are worried. Teaching is so wearing and insecure (less than one-third have long-term tenure) that the average teacher lasts only eight to twelve years...
...Teachers are sexually maladjusted. Most women teachers are not permitted to marry and hold their jobs (only one-sixth are married). Of the unmarried, one-third report themselves made unhappy by that condition...
...Released the third of a series of 25 reports called the "census of American Listed Corporations." Prepared by WPA workers under SEC sponsorship, the reports are intended to bridge the gap between the tremendous volume of data in SEC's files and the potential users to whom it is now relatively inaccessible. The completed reports are sent to a selected list of 1,000 big brokers, bankers, statisticians, anyone else who writes in. First two were on meat packers and steel. Last week's dealt with chain variety stores. Sample fact: F. W. Woolworth...
...frequently as the strikes they celebrated, at least more frequently than they have since. Leader of this radical literary movement was Grace Lumpkin, whose To Make My Bread was one of the first U. S. proletarian novels as well as one of the best. Last week she published her third novel, a slight, simple story of a Southern wedding, which is as far from the subject of her first book as a picket line is from a pulpit. The Wedding is an interesting novel in its own right. But it is more interesting as an indication of how the proletarian...