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...Harkness has largely set aside by his generous promise of more funds when they are needed. The process of selection will be a difficult one, and will involve a certain number of mistakes. There is the danger on the one hand of uncongeniality; on the other of too great accord and insufficiently diversified interests. To be successful, the Houses must function as something considerably more than mere dormitories or common eating halls...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 of Albany, N. Y., was appointed Commencement Day marshal for 1929 at a meeting on Monday night of the Directors of the Alumni Association. He was notified of his election by telephone yesterday and has accepted. The selection was in accord with the tradition that the marshal shall be a member of the class which celebrates on Commencement Day the twenty-fifth anniversary of its graduation from college...
First, to convert Rumania into a democracy of authentic, Anglo-Saxon stamp, retaining constitutional monarchy. Second, to accord to Rumania's national minorities a just and lawful share in government, whereas they have been exploited and oppressed. Third to debureaucratize and decentralize the Government, granting more authority to provinces and municipalities. Fourth, to reform the notoriously corrupt and unscrupulous Police, Gendarmerie and Secret Service. Fifth, to reconstruct the nation economically, providing broad measures of agricultural and industrial assistance. Sixth, to reverse the Bratiano policy of shutting out foreign capital, and rather welcome "peaceful penetration" of Rumania under appropriate...
...have the honor to inform Your Excellency that in accord with the lofty suggestion from the League Council that the Bolivian Government has accepted the good offices offered by the Conference for Conciliation and Arbitration meeting in Washington...
...hear an appeal for the establishment of an international code of standards for airplane manufacture and certificates of airworthiness. Qualifications of those countries that belong to the International Convention for Air Navigation are fairly uniform. But the U.S. does not belong to that convention, and its lack of accord hampers the export of our planes, parts and accessories...