Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More than 200 Massachusetts school and college teachers will be the guests of the Cambridge Union of University Teachers on Saturday at the third annual conference of the Massachusetts branch of the American Federation of Teachers...
Last week a U. S. District Court in Philadelphia decided the case of Apex Hosiery Co. v. Branch i, American Federation of Hosiery Workers, William Leader et al. (TIME, March 27). The verdict: Branch i & its President Bill Leader would have to pay the well nigh impossible sum of $711,392.55 in recompense for damage done Apex's plant and business in a strike two years...
Last week the Air Hygiene Foundation, a branch of the Mellon Institute at Pittsburgh, issued a press release on silicosis, a disease of the lungs which is acquired by continual inhalation of fresh stone dust...
Last week a small olive branch sprouted in the bramble of French-Italian difficulties. In a week when Benito Mussolini was expected to press Adolf Hitler for some cooperation on the short end of the axis there came at least four gestures of moderation...
That the situation is serious is obvious: overloading of tutorial staffs, lowered intellectual standards, strained budgets, and charges that Harvard "starves" a particular branch of study, result. To offer a solution is far more difficult, for floaters always have and probably always will exist. But certainly it should be possible, through more conscientious Freshman guidance and through the establishment of broader survey courses, to provide those men capable of choosing their best field the information which they need. Broad knowledge of little depth is eminently desirable for most men at the Freshman level, for with certain exceptions, only those Sophomores...