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...light of the fact that there are no proposals to change to any other form of government. It does disclose Mr. Hoover's ambitions and his hopes: what a windfall it would be for an eager candidate of the opposition if only Mr. Roosevelt would propose to abolish the Federal Constitution! But it is the idea of an incurable amateur. Mr. Hoover must think that the President is as lacking in political insight as he is himself. He must think the President does not know that an amendment to turn over to the national Government omnipotent powers to regulate...
...Brought startled newshawks scurrying in from the halls when it rejected with one of the loudest viva voce votes on record, a proposal by Tennessee's John Ridley Mitchell to abolish Congressmen's mileage allowance. Having also voted down Congressman Mitchell's amendment forbidding Congressmen to hire their relatives as clerks, it promptly passed a $20,357,165 legislative supply bill, up $886,134 from the current year's appropriation for Congress' upkeep...
...trade in armaments is as repulsive as the slave trade!" cried Lord Cecil. "Britain was the first country to abolish slavery...
...record once & for all their various New Deal grudges. In the most uproarious session in the Chamber's history, with the proposals of the resolutions committee often rewritten on the floor, the Chamber declared its opposition to 1) the Social Security Bill. 2) the Public Utility Bill to abolish holding companies, 3) the section of the Banking Bill which proposes Government domination of the Federal Reserve System, 4) extension of the NRA except temporarily, 5) the AAA amendments (see p. 15), 6) all pending labor legislation. Only on such minor policies as transportation, reciprocal trade pacts, retirement of submarginal...
Claiming that the seven minor sports, which President Conant plans to abolish in his endowment policy for the H. A. A., have an aggregate deficit of less than either crew, baseball, or hockey, four prominent Freshmen will circulate a petition toay throughout the College asking that a seven dollar assessment be levied on each student so that these minor sports may be maintained at their present level...