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...recommendation of the faculty of the Medical School the Harvard Corporation has voted to admit women to the Medical School. The Corporation's decision is still subject to the approval of the Board of Overseers, who are expected to concur...
...Constitutional requirement (Article II, section 2) that two-thirds of the Senators present concur in assenting to treaties made by the president, Burton declared dangerous. Where one-third plus one of the Senators thus control foreign policy, he said, the policy of the minority may be sustained, and a premium is placed upon inactivity. Under the two-thirds rule, 33 senators, possibly representing only eight per cent of the population, may decide issued involving the entire country...
...domestic bureau of Elmer Davis' OWI and the National Youth Administration, and, as a final stab, killed the President's pet little bureau, the National Resources Planning Board (which is headed by his uncle, Frederic A. Delano). The "killings" were tentative, since the Senate must concur, but it is unlikely that the House will give...
...Concur generally: Haven't read the document and don't want to be bound by anything...
...watched. Only 27 days before, the House had passed a bill, 259-to-138, empowering the President to arm merchant ships. The Senate had added two amendments, which would empower the President to send U.S. ships into any port in the world. The question before the House: Should it concur in the Senate amendments? If it did, the Neutrality Act would be gutted like a caught trout, the U.S. would return to its historic principle-abandoned for the last four years-of freedom of the seas. If the House did not concur? Hardly a man dared guess at the consequences...