Word: forward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While most of the press inveighed against the bill, a thoroughly well-organized Administration bloc kept it moving forward in the Senate. When Missouri's Bennett Clark and several collaborators laboriously brought in 20 amendments, most of them excepting specific Government agencies from Presidential tampering, they were voted down at the rate of one a minute. When Virginia's Harry Byrd proposed killing the section applying to the Comptroller General, the Administration's majority against him stood at 4740-36. All this evidently made Floor Leader Alben Barkley so confident that instead of letting the bill come...
With four veterans returning from last year's banner crew, Coach Tom Bolles looks forward to another successful year for the Varsity Crimson oarsmen. "If these four men do as well as they did last year they should make this year's crew," said Bolles yesterday, making it clear that the "if" is a very important one. Speaking of his Varsity boat, he said. "They haven't proven to me yet that they're the best boat...
General Franco's great push from behind Belchite went forward all week long. Objective was to reach the coast and split Catalonia off from the rest of Leftist Spain. The Rightists at latest reports had held Caspe against nine Leftist counterattacks. Leftists figured they had blocked any immediate Rightist advance via Lerida upon Barcelona, where Rightist bombers had slain over 1,000. This week Rightist artillery was pounding ahead of Rightist thrusts toward Gandesa, which is the junction point of two highways to the sea. Rightist planes were furiously bombing Tortosa and many other towns up and down...
...inside union is in large measure the product of misapprehensions caused by the lengthy negotiations between the University and the waitresses. Unfounded rumors about the University's attitude arising from the seeming impasse probably led some forward-looking employees to think that Harvard would appreciate an inside union and reward its founders. Also a natural desire for prestige would induce a man despairing of achieving prominence in the A.F. of L. to join in building a new union...
...worthy theory of countrywide distribution behind the National Scholarships. Establishment of the Advisory Committee, to encourage and assist the Fellows in their study programs, will provide the needful administrative element; planning of discussions with leading journalists will supplement their work nicely. Several points, however, can be put forward which may be of help in connection with the University and selective aspects of the Fellowships...