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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whenever the Republican Party, the Democratic Party or the New Deal Party or any other party," rumbled North Carolina's Josiah Bailey, "caters to the Negro vote, it is going to elect to office common fellows of the baser sort." But when Kenneth McKellar began scornfully quoting from the bill in an effort to establish its unconstitutionality, Senator Wagner pointed out that the passage in question was a quotation from the Fourteenth Amendment. "Yes," stammered Senator McKellar...
...common sight around Harvard Square these days to see "indifferent" Harvard skiiers clad in the latest in skiing clothes packing equipment on automobiles and preparing to leave the cares of college studies for the white expanse of the New England mountains...
Tuesday, January 25: Fine Arts 1e, at 7:30 o'clock in the Upper Common Room of the Union...
Each year students come to the Alumni Placement Office whose ultimate career objective is in professional work, but who for one reason or another want a "job for a year or two." Their reasons vary, but a few are common enough to warrant discussion...
...willing to lend money on any "reasonable" railroad request and though it agreed to lend $8.000,000 to the Baltimore & Ohio after only a week's thought (TIME, Jan. 10)- it refused to aid the Erie. While some Erie bonds broke as much as 16 points and its common stock fell from $6.25 to $3.25, the Erie thereupon defaulted on $1,849.000 interest due on six bond issues. Unless some drastic remedy could be found in the six-month period of grace provided for in the bonds, * the Erie seemed headed for reorganization under section 77 of the Bankruptcy...