Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Harvard has won six out of seven games this season and thoroughly proved its ability in the game against the cadets. Holy Cross, handicapped by injuries and sickness and playing powerful teams, has lost five consecutive contests. Nevertheless the match will by no means be a one-sided affair. Harvard has played no games for over three weeks...
...trend of the times indicates that the intelligent way to argue is to do it in the form of parleys. The younger contemporary of the London Parley, the Wesleyan annual discussion, an invitational affair, is to be held this year on American Business and Government. If the flery duel between Norman Thomas and Admiral Plunkett at the 1928 conference on War is any criterion, the impending and more pertinent argument on domestic conditions between lending statesmen and commercialists should be productive of an excellent display of pyrotechnics...
Thoroughgoing disgust with the Comptroller's office in the handling of the scrubwomen affair is now the only feeling possible for a large mass of Harvard men. Seldom in recent years has the University received so much undesirable publicity as it has over the fact that it was apparently underpaying the cleaning women in Widener Library. Daily papers throughout the whole United States have made scare-head scandal stories of the matter, weekly journals of opinion have run scathing editorials and searing special articles, organizations so far removed as the California League of Women Voters have issued special manifestoes. Harvard...
...their failure to issue prompt and accurate information of the affair early in January one may conceivably expense the authorities on the ground that they have had woefully little practice in a proper handling of the press. But it is far more difficult to explain away both their lack of routine courtesy and their egregious want of intelligent self-interest in falling to reply to the proposal of the State Minimum Wage Board when the matter was so near settlement two years...
What brought the Pratt affair to the surface were the tattlings of one Ernest S. Braidwood, a Customs agent discharged for 'legging who joined with the Anti-Saloon League of New Jersey to block the reappointment of Col. Arthur F. Foran as Comptroller of Customs in New York. Rev. James K. Shields, the N. J. League's local chief, procured from Braidwood an affidavit which he forwarded to President Hoover as an argument against Col. Foran's reappointment. The League opposes this official because in 1928 he was reputed to have said that he would vote...