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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less than 1,000 in 1935. That year, owing $215,000 in back taxes and penalties and $86,666 back rent on its site to the estate of Supreme Court Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller, the Hamilton filed a petition to reorganize under Section 77B of the Federal Bankruptcy Act. Last year Illinois' onetime Attorney General Oscar Carlstrom. the club's 43rd president, desperately got its members' consent to delete the word "Republican" from the charter and open membership to Democrats, chief effect of which was that a number of crusty Republican diehards huffily resigned. Another last...
Under the Maritime Act of 1936 Mr. Kennedy's Commission was ordered to make not one but several studies of U. S. shipping. That seemed to beg the question, so Mr. Kennedy decided upon a unified, comprehensive study which would serve as a foundation for future shipping policy. Experts in every phase of the shipping industry were drafted to aid in the work. And the upshot was to propound and answer five major questions...
...first two years Yale beat Harvard 12-7 and 14-0. In 1928 Harvard came into its own after five barren years. Dave Guarnaccia and Art French collaborated on laterals that made Yale dizzy. In the 1929 game Albie Booth pulled his amazing disrobing act as he ran onto the field in an attempt to boot a field goal, which attempt was smothered by Jim Douglas. Eddie Mays, Charlie Devens, and a Sophomore named Barry Wood combined to give Harvard a score of 10 which was good enough to beat the six points that Yale obtained...
...Deal overhead control and liberalism's social control--i.e. commissions at this point. He answers that the officials who inspect, prosecute, and administer must be regarded as exercising merely certain rights and duties instead of possessing the attributes of majesty. When one remembers that the New Deal's Commissions act only under the mandate of Congressional statutes and the threat of judicial review, Mr. Lippmann's collapse seems miserably final and complete...
However, there are many passages that indicate that the leopard has not entirely changed his spots. The President, in discussing the proposed agricultural act, declared that "here again majority rule seems justified." This apparently means that, as in the Wagner Labor Act, the President favors a plan by which a majority may bind the rest of the farmers to a definite program...