Word: receipts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Between receipt of an associate professorship and retirement men die. They inherit money. They get tired. Or they are offered more attractive positions elsewhere.... Whenever under the new policy an intrinsically desirable teacher is turned out of Harvard and thereafter (within "the next five or ten years") a permanent appointee in his Department ceases to teach prior to retirement, the University will have been unnecessarily damaged.... But the present policy results in automatic dismissal of actual teachers of known value in favor of hypothetical teachers of unknowable value. Surely it is possible to frame a policy less blind and accidental...
...Upon receipt of a reply from Joseph Stalin's stooge, old President Kalinin of the U. S. S. R., Mr. Roosevelt made public his admonition to Russia to go easy on Finland (TIME, Oct. 23). The President of the U. S. in a "personal message"-in the diplomatic scale, one short of formal representation-had simply reminded Russia of 1) U. S. friendship for little Finland; 2) the fact that Franklin Roosevelt got the U. S. to recognize the friendless Soviets in 1933. The President of the U. S. S. R. diplomatically told the President...
...Berlin Admiral Raeder was reported to have demanded (apparently to gain verisimilitude) that U. S. Naval Attache Commander Albert E. Schrader sign a statement acknowledging receipt of the warning. Asked for the source of the information, Admiral Raeder's office replied: "Ask Britain-we have done our duty by giving the warning. It is up to Britain to explain...
Mayor Lyons, running for re-election, although he has lowered the Cambridge tax rate by 50 cents to $41 per thousand assessor real estate valuation, faces opposition on two fronts. The police force is down on him for closing the path to advancement for many years by twenty-one receipt promotions, and Labor is angry at his refusal, for obscure political reasons, to accept Federal money for building improvements...
Says a letter from Publisher Hoffmann: "The sole aim of News From Germany is to further a better understanding of the aspirations, the achievements, and the spirit of Germany; which, I am convinced, will serve the cause of world peace. The receipt of unbiased and accurate information will help readers to form just opinions." But Publisher Hoffmann's information is hardly unbiased or accurate, nor has it the humor, conscious and unconscious, that Commander King-Hall's news-letter has. Sample headlines...