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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among numerous blasts at this astronomic dream was the report of Economist James Douglas Brown's Advisory Council (TIME, Dec. 26). That council, representing Government, Labor and the Public, recommended that in order to hold down the reserve, Social Security call a temporary halt to rate increases, begin payments of full benefits in 1940 instead of 1942, and extend them to more people. Last week, in a report to the House Ways & Means Committee, Henry Morgenthau said nothing about speeding up payments. But he did approve another suggestion: to give up the idea of "full reserve" and substitute...
...teams of Harvard debaters will make trips during the spring recess, the Debating Council announced yesterday, one to Missouri and the other through the Middle Eastern states...
Malcolm R. Wilkey '40, vice-President of the Council, and F. Welch Peel '39 have been named by Coach Albert Norris to make the first debating trip to the mid-west in a number of years. They will visit Washington University, St. Louis University, the university of Missouri, and Evansville College...
Tryouts for this year's triangular Harvard-Yale-Princeton debate and for the Coolidge prized will be held on April 18, 21, and 24, the Debating Council announced yesterday. The question for the debate will be "Resolved: That the United States should orient its foreign policy in vigorous opposition to the Fascist powers...
Student sympathy for the plight of the out-of-Housers was evidenced by an H.S.U. investigation f the problem early in 1938. Last spring a Freshman committee's recommendations that the associate membership plan be tried was rejected by the Housemasters. It was on the basis of a thorough Council investigation that they reversed their stand this week...