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...plan to narrow the range of room rents, by eliminating the topmost brackets of the rent scale and raising the prices of the cheapest rooms, is set forth in the report of the 1932-33 Student Council on the House Plan...
...advantages of "expensive suites" are little greater than those of more moderate rooms. Since the rooms themselves are certainly fairly even in affection with ten exceptions, a spread in reuis from $100 to $500 does not accurately measure the relative values received. Men who realize this seek the cheapest room available. Few men of ample means are altruistic enough to take expensive rooms for the sake of making possible low-priced accommodations for their less affluent colleagues. Nor are they moved by the realization that no undergraduate pays fully for the amount of equipment and instruction offered him, and that...
...royal salute, and Kings, Cabinet Ministers and assorted princes rode down Buckingham Palace Road with a clattering cavalry escort. The welcome was not entirely due to King George's friendship for Irak's King. The British mandate over Irak expired last year and British blandishments are the cheapest means of keeping secure in independent Irak such British '"rights" as the Mosul oil line concession and British staffed airports for Empire ships flying to India...
...changing of this name, Hoover Dam, is to quote Will Rogers, "the silliest thing" any Administration ever did. Also it is the cheapest and most unAmerican...
...part of President Roosevelt's legislative program. He was. in fact, lukewarm to it. Secretary of the Treasury Woodin had frowned on many of its features. One of its authors was Virginia's Carter Glass. But Senator Glass had accepted the guarantee clause only as the cheapest and safest price he had to pay to the radical majority of Congress for passing the rest of his cherished bank reforms. The bill's other author was Alabama's Henry Bascom Steagall, smalltown lawyer and chairman of the House Banking & Currency Committee who spoke for the "little bank...