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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have discussed the House Plan with a number of undergraduates and find the opinion of those at all informed on the subject to be almost universally favorable. The rejection, by a college referendum, of the student council proposal of the House Plan two years ago would not have occurred, I feel sure, had the matter been sufficiently understood. The fact that the leaders in undergraduate life, then as now, favored such a proposal may surely be regarded as indicative of the support of the thinking student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Opposition to House Plan Unfounded Says Williams | 2/26/1929 | See Source »

Conceivably, however, in the event of Germany's default the Great Powers would find it necessary to themselves to pay up the reparations bonds, if only to stave off a crash that might disrupt the fiscal world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Iron Man & Velvet Glove | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...goal of a great political party, by persons who would claim the title of responsible politicians. Those in Great Britain who sympathize most warmly with the idea of India attaining at the earliest possible moment the status of any of the other great dominions of the Crown will find the ground cut from under their feet if British opinion ever becomes convinced that so-called dominion status was valued by India only as a stepping-stone to a complete severance of her connection with the British Commonwealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Menace of Independence | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Last week there was news of Journalist Swope. In blaring newspaper advertisements throughout the land appeared his defiant signature and photograph. His message in these advertisements was: "I light a Lucky whenever I am tempted to eat between meals. . . . The activities of a newspaper demand good physical condition. I find Lucky Strike an immeasurable aid in helping me keep trim and fit. ... Toasting makes Lucky Strike the cigarette of joy and benefit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Swope's Smoke | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Should U. S. housewives who fret over electric bills move to London they would find their worries considerably increased. For in Great Britain light costs an average of 13? per kilowatt hour, almost twice the U. S. average of 6.8?. Electric power, too, is much more expensive in London, costing 4? per hour in England; 2.16? here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Lights o' London | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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