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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Interlocking agencies, the Tariff Association and Taxpayers League share the same Washington 'offices, the same office staff, the same cash solicitors. Their collections are pooled. Their field agents last year brought in $209,586. In return they supplied contributors with "educational bulletins" on tax and tariff matters, gave "expert" advice on fiscal affairs. Sample expenditure: $700 to Frank D. Mondell, onetime Republican floor leader of the House, now a lobbying lawyer, to urge a higher duty on peanuts before the tariff commission. The sum of $77,936.44 went to Lobbyist Arnold and his three chief assistants, one of whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sucker List | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...such terms were acceptable to Democratic Field Marshal Simmons and Freebooting General Borah. They smiled contemptuously as they rejected the Smoot peace offer. They would continue to fight in the open where already their arms had brought such success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Abuse, Rout, Surrender | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

While 50,000 or more people crowd the Stadium for the Harvard-Holy Cross tilt Harvard's Freshman eleven will climax season by battling the Yale first year team on the Second University field today. The opening kickoff of the contest is scheduled for 2 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN CLASH WITH FAVORED ELI IN FINALE TODAY | 11/16/1929 | See Source »

...advantages of the two solutions are obvious. For the comprehensive examination the student must do independent research, and is held for a knowledge of one particular field. His interest in that work is greatly stimulated. When undergraduates and professors are associated in a like activity their intimacy is inevitable; and this in turn leads to a common intellectual interest and a common place of work. Here may be found an atmosphere where minds may grow, and, "by attrition," to repeat President Lowell's words, "provoke one another." Daily Californian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Recognition from the West | 11/16/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard University soccer team will meet Brown today at 12 o'clock on the field behind the Business School in the last contest of its preliminary season. Today the eleven will attempt to break the string of indecisive or losing games which has dogged the team since the Northeastern victory. The team was tied by M. I. T. and the Navy, both 1 to 1, and lost to Amherst, 4 to 2, and to Pennsylvania...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCCER ELEVEN WINDS UP PRELIMINARY CAMPAIGN | 11/16/1929 | See Source »

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