Word: assignations
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...money to start it, Hecht formed Parents Institute Inc., and got a $325,000 grant from the Laura Spellman Rockefeller Memorial Fund by agreeing to assign control of his company to four universities (Yale, Columbia, Iowa and Minnesota). The odd partnership gave canny Publisher Hecht academic alliances which brought an impressive array of famous educators to Parents' masthead as "advisory editors." It also brought the schools a golden flow of income from Parents and a handful of new magazines. By 1949, when Publisher Hecht finally bought up control of Parents Institute, the colleges had already taken out substantial profits...
Besides William James and Richards Halls, which provides almost 200 new rooms, McLoughlin's office had additional space to assign in Perkins Hall, two floors of which were used by Law students last year...
...House bill gave the President almost all he wanted-power to requisition goods and facilities, assign priorities, control credits, make loans up to $2 billion for production of war materials-and some things he did not particularly want -stand-by power to establish at his discretion wage and price ceilings, order rationing. The bill would also penalize hoarders with a maximum $10,000 fine and a year in jail...
Another accomplishment of the Council which has received little publicity concerns segregation in the dormitories. It has been the practice in the past to assign a Negro, Jewish, or Oriental student a roommate of the same group; exceptions to this rule have ordinarily been made only when two individual students of different groups asked to room together when they applied. In 1948-49 the Council worked unsuccessfully for the complete elimination of segregation in room assignments. This year it renewed this recommendation with more success. Applicants for rooms, in the new Graduate Center are not asked for photographs...
...attempt to assign low-priced rooms on a fairer basis, the Financial Aid Center is checking the financial position of almost 400 men so that it can advise the Housemasters next week on who needs inexpensive rooms the most...