Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bone fell down an elevator shaft and almost broke his neck, which remained stiff and now gives him a look as rigid as his principles. The chief of these, public ownership of utilities, he has fought for ever since he worked his way to a law degree and was admitted to the bar in 1911. While practicing law for such clients as Tacoma's Central Labor Council and the Port of Tacoma, Bone tried to clear the way for publicly owned utilities, using any political broom that came to hand. He has been a candidate on the Socialist, Triple...
...little girl he used to go to Sunday School with? And blush with at dancing class? Surety this isn't the same little wretch whose--yes, whose bloomers used to droop so sadly years ago? But it is. She has certainly improved. Vag admits, so on the way out he buys her a huge chrysanthemum. Then, into the Charger--crank, crank. And off to Cambridge--clank, clank. Vag glows. Even the Charger seems less cantankerous...
...formalized government work in the field of social security and relief problems, the machine was at best a palliative. "It worked by hook or by crook. Its rehabilitative influence was accidental rather than purposeful; being essentially a means to an organizational end, it met despondency in a haphazard way, coping with immediate aspects as they presented themselves...
...things that has paved the way for the decline of boss rule has been the advent of necessity as a directing power recently become a major factor in American life. Professionalism in social services and trained personnel became a serious problem. Further, the machine was unable to carry on its former ward beneficence in periods of prolonged economics crises...
...Freshman competition is now under way, directed by Nathaniel Ratchelder '39, and two Yardlings are expected to be taken on the committee next week...