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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sophomore is a candidate for Honors or not in Economics so far as the type and quantity of work is concerned, except insofar as the natural propensities of the student introduce a variable, because usually the introductory course in Economics is taken in the Sophomore year. Therefore it is difficult, if not impossible, to do any advanced work before the Junior year. As for Juniors and Seniors, the amount of time given varies greatly. Some Honors candidates do not rely on the tutors at all. In fact they would rather be left alone to pursue their studies and write their...
...exhibitions provide some stimulus to creative art in the College and to collecting, but there is need of more unity. It is doubtful in the present state of lassitude whether this will occur, but unless the Society for Contemporary Art takes on a new lease of life, it is difficult to justify its existence except as a vent for the executive urge of its officers...
...measure as a companion-piece to the Federal Reserve Act which he pushed through the House of Representatives 20 years ago. He had to battle a bankers' lobby dead set against further Federal restrictions. He had to overcome the Senate's colossal inertia to plow into a difficult and abstruse subject. He had to beat down a small but dogged opposition which filibustered against his bill for the better part of the three weeks it was before the Senate. He had to keep his temper and his tongue when abused by windy petti-foggers for whose intelligence...
...week he said: "I repeat only what I hear repeated by good folk as they labor in our countryside. . . . Our good people believe-and they are right-that there is a sufficient number of talented men in Parliament to carry the nation through the present, and even through more difficult times. But these talented men must first come to an understanding...
...person cannot be convicted of violation of the Volstead Act unless there is presented actual evidence of purchase; and not mere observation of sale. To secure such evidence, Federal Agents have resorted to almost the only expedient--buying the liquor themselves. By prohibiting this, the House has made convictions difficult, if not impossible. The restrictions against wire-tapping and spying, measures which have proved necessary in the program of enforcement, will similarly cut down the possibilities of convictions...