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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last spring Secretary of Agriculture Wallace was busy with the aid of farm leaders concocting a new farm bill, something to succeed the Soil Conservation Act (hurriedly passed when AAA was invalidated), something permanent and inclusive-to begin with soil conservation payments, continue with the ever-normal granary (Joseph) plan, and be driven home with production control when the ever-normal granary gets abnormally full. Three weeks ago in press conference Franklin Roosevelt remarked that this was all a fine idea and he hoped some action would be taken on it. However, the President...
...venture to say that if Congress at this session voted taxes enough or reduced Government appropriations for Relief and other purposes sufficient to balance the Budget, half the members would not be reelected. So let us not blame it all on Congress. The place to begin economizing is at home. The electorate must practice restraint before economy can be accomplished in Government...
...cabaret entertainment, Harpo Marx finds his way to the piano, starts to play Rachmaninoff's Prelude. When he hits a bass note, the piano begins to misfire. When he plays allegro, the top flies off. When he becomes angry, all the keys begin to fly around his ears. Pleased, Harpo removes the strings, uses them for a magnificent harp solo...
Examinations begin today--Mid-Year period extends until February...
...annual literary exercises of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will be on Friday. The exercises, which are open to the public, will begin at 11:30 o'clock in Sanders Theatre. John G. Winant, former Chairman of the Social Security Board and former Governor of New Hampshire, will be the Orator; and Daniel Sargent '13, Instructor and Tutor in History and Literature, will be the Poet. Samuel Williston, Dane Professor of Law at Harvard and President of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, will preside...