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...years Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon has had fair fiscal weather. Ample taxes from a busy, thriving nation piled up whacking big surpluses for him to administer. Under the sun of Prosperity, the Public Debt melted like a snowman in May. A happy man devoted to his job, Secretary Mellon was kept awake at night by no great problems of government finance. Because his department operates one year behind current business conditions (though the Government's spending is planned a half-year ahead), the stock-crash of 1929 was only a far-off warning of coming trouble...
Paddy Harmon soon proved himself no showman. In autumn, 1929, after a half-year's operation, the stadium was $300,000 in the red. The directors got Sheldon Clark, vice president of Sinclair Refining Co., to come in as president. Business got no better. Bond interest had to be defaulted. In June 1930, Sidney Strotz asked to be given a crack at the presidency...
Students of the College and Engineering School are reminded that today is the last day which they may change (drop or add) a course beginning in the second half-year without being subject to a $5 charge...
Students of the College and Engineering School are reminded that tomorrow is the last day which they may change (drop or add) a course beginning in the second half-year without being subject to a $5 charge...
...from the first half-year and meeting regularly on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, will meet this morning as usual. Undergraduates are reminded that a fine of $5,00 is charged after February 21, the second Saturday of the term, for any change (dropping or adding) in half-courses beginning in the second half-year. Saturday, February 28, is the last date for withdrawal from courses which begin in the second half-year, without liability for the additional fee. BOTANY 10 Fri. 3-5 Gray Herbarium...