Word: files
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washingtonians of Southern extraction still dislike dealing with Negro clerks when they go to the Recorder's office in the Century Building to file records of their real estate transactions. Dr. Thompkins, like other Negroes who have held the office, is used to this. A distinguished member of his race, the 56-year-old Missourian has studied at three universities. In Kansas City, where he is editor of the Kansas City American, he was first Negro superintendent of General Hospital No. 2 and chief of its surgical staff...
...Echo Here, a clearing in a German pine forest at which a single automobile has stopped. A bandy-legged Nazi with whip dangling from his wrist, canteen and dirk at his belt, is driving a file of political prisoners off to political execution...
...Confidential Guide for the past two years, the much-needed improvements in Chemistry A are still overlooked. As an introduction to concentration in Chemistry, the course proves to be disheartening and even disastrous to many men. For brilliant students it is excellent, but for the rank and file it is too comprehensive. The lectures by Professor Lamb are the only redeeming feature, but even these are not without flaw. Reading is not coorelated with them, and test questions are often based on material not given in either lectures or reading...
...planning to reorganize the curriculum, the faculty should consider the subjects that can be covered in undergraduate work, rather than increase the years in law school from three to four. For while an extra year would give time for worthwhile special study, the rank and file of men should not be compelled to pile Pelion on Ossa in an already burdensome education...
...strike virus spread fast. Along the Gulf, at Port Arthur, Houston. Mobile and New Orleans, rank & file groups started minor strikes. On the Atlantic, at Boston, Poughkeepsie, Providence there were similar troubles. In Baltimore, 600 seamen walked out. In Philadelphia, 16 ships were tied up. Generally, however, Atlantic maritime workers looked to New York Harbor for guidance. There the man who is nominally head of all U. S. longshore men, President Joseph P. Ryan, jockeyed with the man who would like to be the Harry Bridges of the Atlantic, Seaman Joseph Curran...