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...this desperate corner, Banker Verrier proposes austere terms. He wants to 1) keep wages frozen but abolish most price controls, 2) remove all subsidies, in particular the $100 million annual handout to the railroads, and 3) import capital goods freely but cut imports of consumer goods. Otherwise, he warns, the government will be forced to grind out enough printing-press money to make ends meet...
Norman William Smith, Jr. '58, president of the Young Republican Club, argued that the speeches of these well-known personalities would either abolish the value of the student debaters' talks or that their words would be endlessly repeated in later argument...
...solution to the school committee problem was good-humoredly proposed later by City Councilman Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, who suggested that "all school committees should be abolished." Shaplin countered that he is heading a study of State school committees to try to improve, rather than abolish, the existing ones...
...Johnson and Minority Leader William Knowland last week co-sponsored a bill to 1) amend the provision of Rule XXII that requires a vote of two-thirds of all Senators (64 votes) to close debate, so that cloture can be applied by two-thirds of the Senators present; 2) abolish the provision of XXII that guarantees the right of unlimited debate (i.e., nonstop filibuster privileges) on proposals to change the rules themselves. With half the members already signed on as cosponsors, the rules amendment should pass with little difficulty. With both measures through, a tiny band of Southerners who over...
...years the former President strove to abolish these conditions which he viewed as a hindrance to the educational process. It was not until 1929, however, and the $13,000,000 gift of Edward S. Harkness that he acquired the necessary funds...