Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a House bill providing for 3.2% beer sales in the District of Columbia, after outlawing them from Federal buildings; sent it to conference. ½ Passed a bill authorizing the President to put jobless men to work in the woods; sent it to the House (see above). ¶ Received from the Judiciary Committee a favorable (11-to-3) report on a bill by Alabama's Black establishing a five-day, 30-hour week for industry engaged in interstate commerce...
...Passed (180-10-53) a bill to permit the sale of 3.2% beer in the District of Columbia after defeating (121-10-72) an amendment to bar it from the Capitol and other Federal buildings; sent it to the Senate...
...Horrors 6 Hellishness." Hitting at Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell, onetime Columbia University professor and Roosevelt "brain trust" member, Massachusetts' hulking Treadway roared: "The earmarks of an impractical college professor are plainly apparent in the language of the processing tax. I call upon him and his associates to explain...
...TIME, Feb. 27 et seg.), it was to be expected that some U. S. universities would follow suit. Last week the Brown University Herald front-paged an editorial condemning war. announced a campaign to get pledges against bearing arms except in case of invasion of the U. S. The Columbia Spectator began a poll on pacifism. Northwestern University went even further in imitating Oxford. The local chapter of the League of Industrial Democracy held a debate, presented a resolution which was adopted. 68-to-1, declaring that the audience would not "under any circumstances take part in international...
...final scores of all the colleges entered in the most were as follows: Yale 13, Rutgers 13, Stanford 10, Navy 9, Brown 5, Franklin and Marshall 5, Columbia 3, Harvard 2, Dartmouth 2, Minnesota 1, Ohio State...