Word: various
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outward signs were false, there was no lack of apprehension in the Administration. Most Departments of the Government were hard at work behind closed doors cogitating, calculating, planning-to buffer the shock if & when war came. Under the Neutrality Act and various New Deal laws vesting power in the Chief Executive, the prospect was for more one-man government than the U. S. has yet seen when not at war itself. The job of all executive branches was to compile data and memoranda to guide Franklin Roosevelt should bombs and shells start flying in Czechoslovakia...
Long accepted by embryologists has been a theory that the marsupial mother tucks her newborn into the pouch with her lips. When, at various times, scientists reported cases of kangaroo and opossum babies crawling up their mothers' inclined bodies into the incubating pouches by themselves, most of their colleagues raised an eyebrow. The fetuses, they said, were too immature for such mountaineering...
...study of banker control of industry by means of corporate proxies. As anticipated during last spring's bitter battle between Financier Robert Young and the Guaranty Trust Co. for control of the C. & O. Ry. (TIME, April 25), the antimonopoly committee subpoenaed records of that scrap from various firms including Manhattan's Guaranty Trust, J. P. Morgan & Co., Bankers Trust...
Professor Cunningham has been a member of the Faculty of the Business School since the institution was founded in 1908. He has served on various committees studying transportation problems and is conversant with all the problems in the field of transportation...
...description of the various scholarship has been attempted for a number of reasons, not least of which being lack of space caused by the presence of the names of so many winners...