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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presidents, beginning the fall term last week, generally preached neutrality to their students, pleaded for academic calm. Most militantly neutral, but by no means calm, was University of Rochester's young President Alan Valentine (onetime Rhodes scholar). Dr. Valentine wired to Republican Senators a demand that the Neutrality Act be let alone, went on the radio to read to the People a letter to President Roosevelt. Cried he: "Mr. President, is it to be peace...
...Kept Modified Repealed Deposit Insurance 84.7% 3.9% 3.1% CCC 78.1 11.4 7.4 Banking Act 64.7 14.0 3.8 Housing Act 56.9 19.0 19.6 Securities Exchange Act 44.5 34.2 3.6 Holding Co. Act 33.7 35.5 9.1 Wages & Hours Law 29.8 47.0 21.4 Social Security 24.3 57.9 17.3 WPA 12.1 41.7 44.4 Wagner Act 9.8 41.9 40.9 Undistributed Profits...
...manufacturer ($50,000,000 and over) wanted Social Security repealed, but 92.9% wanted it modified. Among small retailers (under $30,000), 20.4% wanted it repealed and 40.9% wanted it kept unchanged. For the Wagner Act. the biggest vote for repeal (48-49.1%) was among small manufacturers and big retailers, but big manufacturers gave the smallest vote for outright repeal (14.3%). Small retailers split, voting 32.6% for repeal and 25-5% (the highest) for keeping the act...
...files on trade . . . are comprehensive and complete." To 50 businessmen who had answered by last week's end, Mr. Ogawa and his six Japanese office helpers had a service to offer. No buyer of materials, like Russia's Amtorg, the Japan Foreign Trade Bureau proposed to act as a two-way middleman: not only to help Japanese dealers find markets in the U. S., but to help U. S. merchants sell in Japan. This sounded good, and it was as good an excuse as any for Japan to get part of her old pal Germany's trade...
Last week, as World War II boomed forward from its overture to its first act, there was again a small disturbance in the orchestra pit. In the provincial English beach-resort town of Hastings, Conductor Julius Harrison of the local Municipal Orchestra announced that he would ban Wagner from the coming season's programs. Said he: "Wagnerian music is the prototype of Nazi aggression. It is heavy and militant and reminds one of Hitler...