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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speculative collapse in commodities in England coupled with President Roosevelt's statement that certain U. S. commodity prices were rising too fast. Now commodity prices are nearing the 1926 level. Four years ago President Roosevelt was said to favor maintaining the 1924-25 level by varying the gold content of the dollar. So the New Deal is now at the crossroads where it may soon, have to abandon its determination to hold commodity prices down, or to give up all its other inflationary policies...
...official calling in life is tennis expert, but who some time ago addressed himself to the problems of education in America, has taken another shot at the colleges of the nation in an article in the current Scribner's entitled "Selling Scholarship Short." Here the ambitious idol-smasher, not content to rest with his recent doubtful answer to the question "Was college worthwhile?" points out that a large number of the colleges in the United States are unable to get enough students to fill their halls, and hence resort to underhanded practices, from fraudulent advertising to downright kidnapping, to lure...
...content with this caustic comment. Professor Wieland promptly fired the following original composition at Mr. Ickes...
...weighty problems of social and economic adjustment.'' Said Governor Murphy: "To the solution of these problems Archbishop Mooney brings a world of wisdom, of kindly understanding and of farseeing vision. I rejoice in the thought of the great good that a shepherd of his spiritual content can do for the people in encouraging the Christian approach to their problems...
...content to guess, Republican Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan introduced a resolution in the Senate declaring it the "sense" of that body. The President should appoint Justices of the Supreme Court only when the Senate could act on the nominations before the nominees began service. Said he: "It is manifest the Senate can't be a free agent to exercise responsibility under the Constitution to confirm Supreme Court nominees if the Senate can't act until after a nominee has put on his robes and served for many months as an integral part of the Court...