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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although this change has undoubtedly come for reasons of expediency as well as any other, it does show that the H.A.A. is willing to listen, even though not to act, on every suggestion. When the Student Council appointed a special committee to investigate this particular branch of undergraduate, life, another indication that the H.A.A. was not as interested in the opinion of the student body as might be expected was brought to light...
More practical Thomasites were last week counting less on posthumous rewards than on intervention by Franklin D. Roosevelt, who as U. S. President may veto any act of the Commonwealth Government which in his judgment indicates failure to fulfill Government contracts...
...chief West Coast "angel," broken it to the G-men and was playing it for all it was worth in his Hearstpaper. The U. S. Attorney in Los Angeles last week issued a warrant for the arrest of John Wuest Hunt, 33, charging him with violating the Mann Act with a Denver 17-year-old named Delight Jewett. Hunt, a fat, thrice-married young man with plenty of money, became a Divinite in Manhattan two years ago, was last year put under observation in Bellevue Hospital because he sent Postmaster General Farley certain obscene confessions as to the good Father...
Last October, four months after the Robinson-Patman Act went into effect, the Baltimore purchasing agent for Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. received a letter from A. & P. headquarters: "Go through your records carefully and see if there has not been some entry or some correspondence which might come in for criticism or complaint. You are buying large quantities of merchandise from many shippers for a large organization and must realize that everything you do is certain to be subject to review, or even investigation, and we urge you to handle your dealings accordingly...
...more than might be expected from a chainstore with 15,000 outlets and annual sales of nearly $1,000,000,000 was this shrewd bit of foresight. Outlawing price discrimination and many another favor long demanded by the country's big buyers, the Robinson-Patman Act is fundamentally anti-chainstore legislation. Sure enough, in its efforts to retain at least a measure of the advantages of large-scale buying, A. & P. was soon enmeshed in Federal Trade Commission proceedings, dragging in a number of ifs suppliers, who are equally liable under...