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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a bill to extend the inheritance tax to trusts; sent it to the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Clock | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

Work Left Undone. The adjournment of Congress killed legislation to: 1) extend copyright privileges; 2) reduce immigration 90% for two years; 3) aid maternity and infancy welfare; 4) abolish the "lame duck" session of Congress (the Thomas filibuster was cited as a glaring example of the need for this reform); 5) build the Navy up to treaty limits; 6) dry up the capital; 7) put the U. S. into the World Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 71st's End | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...plans call for the razing of Appleton Chapel and Robinson Annex, in order that a building in the customary bulldog posture may squat across the Yard opposite Widener, thereby effectively removing one of the few remaining airy-approaches to the Yard. A chapel so huge that its wings extend from the back doors of Thayer to the windows of Sever 11 and surmounted with a typical Harvard-Georgian-Colonial tower is not a pleasant prospect. From the point of view of location the thing would be even more preposterous than the three Wigglesworths of Massachusetts Avenue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COMPULSORY CHAPEL | 3/10/1931 | See Source »

That the government has a standing debt to its veterans is unquestionable, and that aid should be given to those in real need in generally conceded. To extend a bonus, however, at this time and include those not in immediate want at the risk of weakening the government and putting a further burden on the whole people, is extremely unwise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BONUS BONERS | 2/21/1931 | See Source »

...units. If but three houses should adopt the student waiter system, there would be employment for sixty or more undergraduates to whom work is the only means to education. Not only that, but a lesson in democracy would be taught both to waiters and diners. Harvard's roots may extend to England, but her nourishment comes from a more simple society. The system of student waiters would be a reversion to true origins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT WAITERS | 2/14/1931 | See Source »

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