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...world" crusader with rag-paper pamphlets and the cautiously respectable student council federation with annual parliamentary junkets. Regional delegates, meeting here over the weekend in a warmup before this September's week-long Constitutional Convention at the University of Wisconsin, displayed unanimous determination to steer clear of both political axe-grinding and do-nothing organization for its own sake. What they are out to build is an utterly representative national body in which every American student will feel himself a citizen-member. Their aim is to coordinate the efforts of students in the solution of common problems; to provide...
...reported the average weekly board cost as $3.95 at a time when the menu offered such choices as "Roast Ribs of Beef," and "Braised Pork Tenderloin, Robert Sauce." "Creme d'Menthe Punch" and "Jelly Roll Pudding, Wine Sance" were two items on the same menu that prompted Carrie Nation, axe-wielding prohibitionist, to make her notorious invasion of the Memorial Hall dining room. During the noon meal on November 14, 1902, she appeared in the gallery where visitors came to "watch the animals eat"--and was immediately recognized with cheers and jeers from the floor below. She shouted, "Boys...
...living. Labor leaders are under greater pressure than ever from their followers to bring home increased wages. Only the threat of another round of strikes which might be disastrous to the future well-being of their organizations; with Congress showing increased signs of readiness to swing a big axe at the unions, would prevent these leaders from asking for an increased share of industrial profits. Management, faced with another boost in the cost of labor, would again be tempted to raise prices correspondingly, and another inflationary jump would be under...
...capitalizing on the current hatred of Peron, the United States would throttle the latent belief that American interest in South America is built around nothing but the dollar sign and put a few needed teeth into its plan for hermispheric solidarity. If Argentina is allowed to swing its economic axe, unfettered Latin-Americans can hope for nothing better than the crumbs from Peron's vest...
Because the bill represented a rather unsavory attempt to use taxing power to coerce colleges into regulating admissions in accordance with policies laid down by axe-grinding politicians, even those colleges which would fall safely within the requirements for exemption joined Harvard's Administrative Vice-President and the President of M.I.T. to form an absolutely solid opposition. If the threat of removing exemption from taxation can be used to force compliance with an admissions policy formulated by men who have political power to control the legislature, it can be used later to accomplish anything up to and including state domination...