Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yard could stand as a comparatively modern unit. This is the opening of new doors into some of the classrooms in Harvard Hall. Aside from the danger of fire, there is the more prosaic necessity for getting out of the room quickly to attend following classes, which is a virtual impossibility at present...
More serious labor trouble confronted film actors and producers in Hollywood. Strongest labor group there is the International Alliance of Theatrical & Stage Employes, a virtual company union whose leaders work hand in glove with producers under a five-year contract forbidding strikes. Independent unions, affiliated with American Federation of Labor, have long struggled vainly for-recognition. Last week when their demands for recognition and all-union shops were turned down for the fifth successive year, 3,000 members of A. F. of L. painters', scenic artists' and make-up men's unions walked out on strike. Picket...
When famed Feminist Carrie Chapman Catt saw that the fight for woman suffrage in the U. S. was about to be won. she journeyed to the Philippine Islands in 1913 and publicly proposed suffrage for her little brown sisters. Male Filipinos laughed derisively. Their women had been virtual slaves in their homes until the Philippines came under U. S. rule...
With swift and decisive action last night the Student council threw itself into the melee occasioned by the virtual firing of Alan R. Sweezy '29, and J. Raymond Walsh, instructors in Economics. It voted 14-2 top sustain a resolution that political bias had not influenced either the Economics Department nor the Administration in the failure to promote Sweezy and Walsh...
Further investigation proved that Hopei's finances are backed by the Japanese Bank of Korea, that it already sends a virtual Ambassador to Manchukuo, will shortly send another to Tokyo...