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Following the dispute aroused by the Ballantine-Bowditch proposals, first to abolish the Student Council and second, as a compromise to cut down its present size, a new, shiny, revised constitution will be proposed at a regular meeting of the Council in University Hall this evening...
...Federal and state aid in working out a program for painlessly absorbing the picker into the South's economy. An idea of their own is not to sell the harvesters but to lease them to planters who promise to maintain minimum wage and maximum work-hour scales, abolish child labor and accept collective bargaining. If the promises are not kept the Rusts would snatch back the planter's picker...
...Francis E. Townsend: We say most seriously that within two months after a majority gives power to [our] program we can completely abolish poverty...
...frontier line dividing Germany from France & Belgium is demilitarized anew for an equal depth on both sides. The French dig up out of the ground along the frontier a section of their $300,000,000 concrete and steel forts with heavy gun emplacements, the Belgians similarly abolish their frontier forts, and the Germans merely march out of the Rhineland the troops they last week marched in with such rejoicings...
Having thus obtained a potent voice in the naming of the two ranking officers in each Reserve Bank, Marriner Stoddard Eccles, the New Deal's chief banking architect, proposed to abolish the office of Reserve Bank chairman which, so far as the need for centralized control was concerned, was now wholly superfluous. On that point, however, Mr. Eccles had to give in to Congress. Last week Federal Reserve Board Chairman Eccles apparently set out to abolish the office anyhow...