Word: findings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House had brought forth its tariff bill and to the Hoover eye it did not resemble the article he had hoped for (see p. 10). To find out what was wrong with it, to gauge its potential effect upon Business and the Cost of Living, the President set expert analysts to work. His own first impression of the duties on shingles, lumber, cement and sugar was not favorable but he withheld formal opinion until he was better fortified with facts. Trouble aplenty was in the Senate where the Republicans were quarreling among themselves, to the jeopardy of the Administration...
...much the new bill as the prospective Republican method of putting it through the House under a "gag rule." This method he called "legislative cowardice." He described Speaker Longworth and Leader Tilson as "yellow, legislatively speaking" for fearing a "handful of Democrats." The "most vicious proposal" he could find related to its valuation system...
This effort from a business point of view is comparatively recent and marks a shift from the attempt to find what the people want and then trying to supply it to them, to one in which the commodity, which is increasingly becoming ideas and not concrete goods, is supplied and the desire is then created for it. Over a period of the past five or ten years "big business" has been using four definite avenues of approach with the above aim in view...
...unlikely that the Athletic Association expects very much from the committee it has appointed to sound out undergraduate opinion on the proposed award to all minor sport teams of a minor "H" without modifications. The H, A. A. knows that attempts to find undergraduate opinion at Harvard are generally fruitless, however well-meant they may be. It seems, therefore, that the appointment of the committee is only a device to gain time for more consideration of the proposal. The significance of the incident lies in this very move which indicates that the Association has accepted a suggestion as worthy...
...question. A committee of three Seniors, composed of A. S. Woodworth '29, chairman, A. E. French '29, and Hulburd Johnson '29 was appointed to look into the matter and report to the committee at its June meeting. An effort will be made to sound out the undergraduate feeling and find the best possible solution...