Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spontaneous student concern was manifested when it was learned that Robin Feild had not been reappointed. Students recognized this as a vital issue immediately concerning them, which necessitates action. The students hope that the Fine Arts Department will continue to allow a diversified approach to the study of Fine Arts. We also hope that the Fine Arts Department will live up to our expectations by reconsidering its action concerning the non-reappointment of Mr. Feild...
Dean Hanford has "awaited with interest" the report of the Student Council on the first-ranking bogey-man of University Hall, undergraduate housing. And, with a more vital and personal interest, so have the homeless three hundred, who now lurk in the crepuscular gloom of Little or Dudley and subsist on the weird stews of Harvard Square chefs. The Council has spoken, but like the oracles of the ancient Greeks, it has nothing...
...outbreak of the World War, Britain found that thousands of her skilled workers had flocked to the army, leaving raw youngsters to work the vital industries at home. Before the next war, Britain is determined to separate the cannon fodder from the needed workers. Out of a working population of 15,000,000 some 7,000,000 were listed by the Government as employed in "essential" jobs, exempt from voluntary defense duties, and, by implication, from draft. These included some whose possible wartime duties puzzled many Britons: floorwalkers, bulb growers, bookstall attendants, piano polishers, paper hangers, trade-union officials, executives...
...Kenneth Collins and Macy's parted company. The Straus Brothers, Macy's principal owners, never liked the Collins passion for personal publicity, which included morsels such as a debate with Novelist Faith Baldwin on "Is Charm Vital to Business Women's Success?" Returning from Europe one time, he gave out a half-column interview which was published with a two-column picture. Below was the notation: "Also aboard was Percy S. Straus, vice president of R. H. Macy...
Abuses in trade union activities and public relief contribute two major barriers to the normal flow of farmers into industry, he said. The removal of such barriers is "of vital importance for the satisfactory functioning of our society and in particular for the solution of agricultural problems...