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...There is no limit to the number of teams of graded ability that interested students can organize; in any way to permit a victorious House to be regarded as unjustified in its victory, or to place House sports in a position of inferiority, is little in accord with the broadest policies of the University...
...week President Roosevelt laid before Congress his Tennessee River-Muscle Shoals project as his first great piece of national planning. He called for a Tennessee Valley Authority-"a corporation clothed with the power of Government but possessed of the flexibility and initiative of a private enterprise . . . charged with the broadest duty of planning for the proper use, conservation and development of the natural resources of the Tennessee River drainage basin." Declared he in his special message: "The Muscle Shoals development is but a small part of the potential public usefulness of the entire Tennessee River. Such use transcends mere power...
...diffident way he had already given the Senate committee his views on this measure, designed to restore farm purchasing power by artificially raising the prices of cotton, corn, wheat, tobacco, rice, hogs, sheep, cattle and dairy products to pre-War parity with industry.* Nothing short of the broadest and most flexible authority, he had testified, would suffice to solve the farm problem. After such a sweeping grant it was up to Congress and the country to trust him to use it with discretion...
Black Bill. Broadest and most concrete proposal before the country was a bill by Alabama's smart little Senator Hugo Black to establish throughout the U. S. a 30-hour work week. The Black bill would penalize those manufacturers doing an interstate business who worked their employes longer than six hours per day, five days per week. Its sponsors declared it represented the crystallization of the best economic thought of the times to limit the hours of labor to spread unemployment. Its genesis was blamed on the conservative backwardness of U. S. industry to revamp itself to meet...
...Dean Fenn was not a preacher, for he was a minister in the, broadest interpretation of the word. In him the theology of the scholar was subordinate to the religion of humanity. A Unitarian by inclination and by training his greatest faith was in mankind. Few older men have brought so much to younger men as he did in his daily contact with the students...