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Both Brazil and Colombia want the U.S. either to set minimum prices for coffee and establish import quotas for each coffee-growing nation or begin stockpiling. The U.S. is not yet ready to go that far. It is willing to grant stopgap aid, e.g., a $103 million loan to Colombia a fortnight ago. And it is willing to work jointly on plans for more orderly marketing. "The U.S. finally has admitted that the problem is mutual," said one Latin American ambassador in Washington last week. "That's quite a change...
...pressure of his new responsibilities." President Lowell's annual report, generating even greater interest, discussed the possibilities of moving freshmen from the river to the Yard as upperclassmen moved into the Houses, and Yale, which had once sent Edward Harkness and his money away, finally relented and accepted his grant for the Quadrangle System...
...spring of 1931 a sophomore named Harry Levin won first place in the Bowdoin Prize Contest for his essay entitled "The Broken Column." The following fall, Levin's essay, along with three other theses, were published by the Harvard University Press under a grant by Herbert Nathan Straus...
...Colombia is suffering from a 3,000,000-bag coffee surplus. Without the dollars the coffee could bring in, the country can hardly keep up with its current U.S. commercial debts. The choice, outlined in April by Colombian Foreign Affairs Minister Carlos Sanz de Santamaria: either the U.S. could grant a loan or Colombia would have to risk wrecking world coffee prices by dumping its surplus. In effect, the U.S. loan helped save the world coffee market...
Museum directors and gallery operators are expected to rally behind the Javits-Thompson effort, although they grant that many a sensible decision has been made under the present law. Case in point: when a batch of twelve "abstractions" by a London Zoo chimpanzee arrived in Baltimore, they were about to be passed as duty-free original works of art when customs inspectors identified the "artist." They assessed full duty, reasoning that when a chimp apes...