Word: background
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Trustee No. 1, of A. G. & E.'s top company "Co.," is a meticulous, retiring lawyer's lawyer named Walter Pollak. His background: special assignments from such a top-notch reorganization jurist as Judge Robert Patterson in the job of unraveling the I. R. T. He also defended the Scottsboro boys in the U. S. Supreme Court. Relatively free from political complications is Co., really just a set of very complicated books, made to order for bookish Trustee Pollak...
...Wrote the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born: "We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all citizens whatever their background...
...Examinations started two years ago by the Civil Service are a step towards recruiting men with broad professional training. By no means accepting the traditional British view that the mind trained in the classics can do any job required, the new examinations are nonetheless culling a type with general background and intelligence, emphasizing that there are possibilities for mental discipline in the social sciences as well as any field...
...week Finnish men and women worked day & night. Brawny peasant women toiled side by side with boys and old men, burrowing trenches, throwing up breastworks, putting together makeshift pillboxes. Beneath the high-pitched scream of shells in air and the sharp thunder of their explosions sounded the dull bass background music of the battle south of the city. Day by day it came nearer...
...other than Dr. Neal Naramore Wood. Thoroughly befuddled, the board turned for advice to Dr. Malcolm Thomas MacEachern, associate director of the American College of Surgeons, organization which certifies hospitals. Dr. MacEachern was polite to the supervisors, but said in effect that they had better retire gracefully to the background, leave the management of the hospital to a respectable board of "outstanding citizens with non-political affiliations." He further advised: "A minimum of $12,000 salary should be offered to the new incumbent, rather than $9,000." (When looking for a director last year, Chicago's Cook County Hospital...