Word: formals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like all other chiefs of state, President Hoover receives influential men of business unofficially and without formal appointment to hear their private reports on industrial conditions. Of late these callers have been confiding to the President their difficulties in maintaining his wage scale while commodity prices were falling. Outside the White House they repeated their laments in the hearings of newshawks. Last week in so reliable a Republican print as the New York Herald Tribune President Hoover was depicted as waging a stiff backstage "struggle" to uphold his pay policy "in the face of a strong movement in financial circles...
Undersecretary Castle is not like that. Twelve years in the State Department have bred into this slender, grey-haired. grey-eyed man a profound regard for the formal usages of his profession. He would no more give an ambassador such stark instructions than he would dine at the French Embassy in overalls. Yet behind his correct exterior the new Undersecretary is a man of real ability...
...sleeve a plane "that the public wants to buy"-a small two-seater monoplane distinctly and purposely suggestive of the famed old "Model T" Ford automobile. He named it the "Sky Car," admitting (hoping) that "the public, in its usual fashion, is likely ... to dub it something less formal." The Sky Car is a low-slung, truncated cabin suspended beneath a cantilever wing, with a tail assembly mounted at the end of an outrigger framework. The engine is a 75-h. p. pusher, with the propeller whirling between the members of the outrigger. The ship is all-metal, blue...
...effective an organized association of draft-resisters could be is hard to determine. Although a small group would probably find itself helpless once war was declared, it might have considerable influence in restraining a government from beginning hostilities. Certainly a formal association could have far more effect than a number of isolated individuals. When patriotism and national honor become sacred idols, as they do in times of imminent or actual war, many are constrained, for lack of moral support, to abandon the principles which they hold in saner moments. Such moral backing a Federation of resisters would give them...
...talks need not be presented as formal arguments, but may be in any form that the contestant chooses. Men intending to compete may attend meetings of English 10a at which members of the class will present short talks prepared on this subject. These meetings will be held in Holden Chapel on April 6 from 10 to 11 o'clock, and from 11 to 12 o'clock. The final competition for the prize will come on April 23, and will be held in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum in the evening...