Word: whether
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accordance with local VA policy, veterans here can choose whether or not they want pay during the 15-day leave periods. Since Harvard schedules only a few days between terms, veterans here have always elected to refuse the 15-day leave...
...role of the conservative is particularly important when we consider his opposite number, the emotional liberal. The liberal of this sort is one whose emotions are stirred when he reads a tag. If the tag says "pro union," he votes for whatever is in the package, whether it helps members of unions...
...valuable lessons. One of them is that it should be easier to avoid a depression than to cure it. Continuous watching and suitable remedial action is possible and lies within the province of the President's Economic Council and the Joint Committee of Congress. It remains to be seen whether those bodies will act on the basis of short-sighted, political expediency or will address themselves to the serious task assigned to them...
...conclusion, let us face the difficulties in our situation. We have to persuade people whether as members of political parties, trade unions, farm organizations, or business groups--that they should look at the long-range interests of all the people rather than to the short-range interests of their own group. We have to do this in spite of the fact that those who undertake it may thereby lose the positions which give strength and carrying power to their words...
Managers of the Commander, Statler, and Touraine hotels were not available for comment yesterday, while officials of the Ritz-Carlton, Somerset, Parker House, and Sheraton refused to state whether or not they would help football players...