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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first AAA, partly on the ground that the U. S. Government cannot constitutionally control the production of farms. Ruling last week on the 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act, Owen Roberts held for a majority of six that its provisions authorizing Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace to limit the amount of tobacco which any grower may sell do not limit production itself, therefore are constitutional. Also affected: cotton, corn, wheat, rice...
Some of the most flagrant violations of ethical tutoring here at Harvard arise from commercialization. Granted that these practices amount to cheating, the worst kind of cut-throat competition among the tutors results in making these ever more dubious. Each tutor must go his rival one better...
...best he could in whatever situation he found himself. Of course, one cannot discount the sparkle of ingenuity and inspiration which makes the difference between mere technical exercise and great art. But the change of attitude is rapidly taking place, and when one takes into consideration the amount of water that has gone over the dam since then, the results of the approaches of the eighteenth century and that of Hindemith are remarkably similar...
...loan from the bank. She used her power of attorney to obtain it and Drexel bought $100,000 worth of stock on margin in Bird's name. Before Bird could extricate himself, the crash had come and he was short $239,000. He borrowed that amount from a friend...
...might in the future to be more than propitiated by the elevation of his sport to a major status, provided this action was justified by popularity. Also forced to sacrifice will be the administration, for the abolition of intercollegiate competition in minor sports means the abolition of a corresponding amount of publicity--publicity which Harvard must greedily seek no matter how proud she is. It means in addition the abolition of a certain amount of contact with the rest of the collegiate world, and a shrinking back into a cramped Cambridge-New Haven shell. Fortunately these effects are quantitatively unimportant...