Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcement that 1161 undergraduates have applied to the Student Employment Office for positions, some receiving steady employment, some temporary employment, and some no employment at all, emphasizes once again the widespread need among students for increased financial assistance...
...meeting this problem it is necessary to have more careful surveillance of all who enter the Houses. As for thefts from the rooms, these are primarily the result of students' leaving doors unlocked. Disappearance of coats from the Union should be lessened by more widespread use of the check-room facilities. Checking systems should be established in the Houses, perhaps with automatic checking-racks installed. These racks are similar to those in railway station restaurants, with the coat held between two bars; as the bars are clamped together a metal check is pushed out, which is inserted in the slot...
...report announcing a deficit of $1.200,000 for this year and last, National Episcopal Treasurer Lewis Battelle Franklin revealed that only 4? out of every dollar given the church had been used for missions. Mildly he noted that "pressure of parochial and diocesan needs has caused a widespread retention of a far larger part of the total money given than is justified...
...major triumph of this ukase lies not simply in the fact that the compliance board was outrageously biased in favor of the employer in most disputes, but in this; that the process of mediation will be stepped up to something more than the snailspace which is causing such widespread disillusion with the entire scheme of dispute-settlement. In strikes, the element of time is absolutely vital to the union involved; and delay in arbitration may quash the walk-out more surely, more disappointingly than an army of thug-scabs...
...large number of first rate college men in various offices outside of the publicized brain trust," said William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday. "These men were brought in by the expansion of the government at a time when unemployment was widespread among a class which would ordinarily enter some form of business...