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This advice is, of course, to: 1) lower tariff walls; 2) abolish quota restrictions; 3) stabilize currencies; 4) restore freedom of exchanges; 5) balance budgets. Having dropped in at the White House and made the rounds of Europe, M. van Zeeland picked five nations as the Great Powers most apt to take what he considers the standard brands of good advice...
...pernicious system." With this as a jumping-off point Doris Duke's husband, James Henry Roberts Cromwell, proceeded to tell the House Ways & Means Committee how to reform the U. S. tax system. He had flown straight from Honolulu and was fairly bursting with ideas. He wanted to abolish all income, gift, estate and corporation taxes, to replace them with a general manufacturers' sales tax which would force him and his wife to contribute more to the support of the Government...
...last remaining vestiges of a political controversy in Harvard will once more start to function. This is the Freshman election. Just as the Union Committee has risen in the past few years to a position where it represents the Freshman class, so now the time has come to abolish the February elections which have become both meaningless and disrupting...
This movement has long had much support; it is now time for Dean Leighton and the Student Council to take the lead in acting to abolish elections that mean nothing, prove nothing, and disrupt an otherwise fair and efficient method of Freshman self-government...
...Giovanni Piazza, a militant churchman who is considered one of many candidates to be the next Pope. He is Patriarch of Venice, in effect an archbishop but holding an ancient title (like the Patriarchs of Lisbon, the East and West Indies) which stands because no one ever bothered to abolish...