Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This nugget of railroad wisdom appeared last week in a letter to the contented stockholders of Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. For their approval President William Johnson Harahan submitted a plan to make C. & O.'s finances even sounder, more adequate, than they are now. The plan hinges on the creation of a new preferred stock which may be used 1) instead of bonds, to raise fresh capital and 2) instead of cash, to pay dividends on the common. The preferred as a whole would carry the right to elect one-fifth of the board of directors, and the first series...
Meanwhile the School of Design as a unit has shown many signs of brimming vitality. Among the most important of its innovations was the creation, in conjunction with the Division of Fine Arts, of a new undergraduate field of concentration in the history and principles of design. Of a more general character was the decision to consolidate scholarships, following the Conant plan, so that the range from $200-$1200 will be adjusted to financial need. Further the facilities of the draughting rooms and the library have been much improved...
Parkman declared that the Communists are seeing spooks under the bed when they say that the Republicans are reactionary. "The underlying philosophy of the New Deal is to raise prices by curtailment of production and the creation of monopoly under the NRA," he said, "while the Republicans advocate removing restrictions on business and by free competition get lower prices and an increased distribution of income...
Having successfully weathered the storms indigenous to its creation and first year of existence. Harvard's commuters' center is now embarking auspiciously on its second season...
Until the creation of Dudley Hall the Commuters were in possession of Harvard's perennial and unsolvable problem. A three-cornered situation existed between Phillips Brooks House where the entire commuting body crowded into insufficient quarters and hampered the smooth running of the Social Service menage; the Dean's office where lack of funds or building blocked reform; and the Day Scholars who saw themselves, with justice, the owners of the soubriquet, "the University's forgotten...