Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight all six women members of Congress-Arkansas' Senator Hattie Caraway, Representatives Caroline O'Day (N. Y.), Edith Nourse Rogers (Mass.), Mary T. Norton (N. J.), Nan W. Honeyman (Ore.), Virginia E. Jenckes (Ind.)- lined up chain-gang fashion for a group photograph (see cut). They had gathered to honor the prize winner of a contest conducted by the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee...
...first basket all corporations earning $25,000 or less were exempted entirely from the undistributed profits tax. The second basket placed a trifling undistributed profits tax (maximum: 4%) on all other corporations- with certain exceptions. One exception was closely-held corporations making more than $75,000. For this group-in the third basket-the surtax and income tax together would work out in most cases at less than the highest effective rate at present: 32.4%. But the third basket would catch relatively few corporations...
...perfect fairness I would say to the Senator I would just as lief Willkie should be on the committee as the Senator from New Hampshire. ... He hates the TVA." Senator Norris had proposed an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. But to many Congressmen the idea of one group of Roosevelt appointees sitting in judgment on another looked, despite the sincerity of George Norris' intentions, too much like an unsatisfying whitewash...
Representatives from the Eliot House Committee, the Lampoon, Monthly and Young Conservatives were present as unofficial delegates. Crushing, 9-8, a move to admit Radcliffe, the group extended membership to organizations in the Graduate Schools...
...other questions. Budgetary problems and the trend to social sciences are closely related, for History, Government, and Economics in particular, and English to some degree, are Harvard's most crowded fields and promise to continue their growth. In these departments, too, the twin specter exists of a large group of young instructors eager to advance and of limited, permanent top faculty positions filled in large measure with young men. Further, as the report itself points out, University financial statements reveal that a "frozen" budget may be expected for some years, thus destroying the hope of increasing the number of permanent...