Word: oftener
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...something a weary Congress had often asked itself while Texas Jack was sunning himself in Uvalde. But it still had some jobs to finish: the last deficiency bill, the $1,469,000,000 supplemental defense appropriation, the Excess Profits &-Amortization Bill. Conferees had ironed out differences between the House's version of the Excess Profits Bill and the Senate's. Congress hoped to pass it this week. Passed by the Senate and sent to conference was the Ramspeck Bill, which permits the President to fold into the Civil Service system approximately 200,000 Government employes through noncompetitive examinations...
What happens to an alderman's salary? A hundred angry taxpayers' leagues, thinking of both the alderman and his salary as fat, have asked this question. Paul Howard Douglas, University of Chicago economics professor, often used to ask it. Last year popular, liberal-minded Paul Douglas decided to find out. He ran for alderman in Chicago's fifth ward, promised if elected to audit and publish his annual income. Last week Alderman Douglas kept his pledge, issued his findings...
...Italy. And Japan's risks were greater. But if the U. S. is kept from effective action in the Far East, Japan may eventually realize her East Asian dream. Last week no authoritative spokesman would define the term Greater East Asia, but the newspaper Nichi Nichi, which often speaks with authority, drew its boundaries in an article last month. Said Nichi Nichi...
...cannot be stressed too often, wrote the New York Times's Raymond Daniell from London last week, that these raids sometimes cause damage to military objectives. . . . Such damage is subject to censorship, it should be remembered, lest an erroneous impression be gained that only hospitals and churches are being bombed...
This is just what the Student Council has done in the past two years. In the fall of 1938, a committee headed by James Tobin '39 and J. Spence Harvin '39 sat down to figure out what ailed the Harvard curriculum. Throughout the year they held weekly sessions often running far into the night, and in June, 1939, they released a 13,000 word report urging the reinstatement of a liberal content at Harvard...