Word: happening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about. The struggle today is for control of commodities and production, and the unions are waging a strong fight to secure this control. Labor has been attempting, also, to substitute a government by economic units instead of by political majorities. God help the United States if this should ever happen...
...they can do nothing against organized business. Their grievance, said Senator Ladd, in perfectly legitimate. It is predicted that within a few years this country. With all its land and all its gigantic market system, will have to import food on a large scale. The reason why this will happen is the existence of the middlemen. The whole market system huge but too complex, is ran and for the benefit of this unproductive class, which battens on producer and consumer alike. A farmer gets $1.50 for the wool that goes to make up a suit for which...
...Alumni Association. These names are then nominated by postal service and are finally voted upon at Commencement by those alumni who are in Cambridge on that day. The disadvantage of this rule is that many alumni, eligible to vote, are unable to do so, because they do not happen to attend the Commencement exercises...
...number of the Overseers was increased and the right to vote for these men was given to holders of all degrees of Harvard and its graduate schools. The new bill will make it possible for all graduates to vote for our Overseers whether they happen to be in Cambridge at the moment, or elsewhere...
...Conditions today", he said, "are entirely different from any that have faced the business men of the present generation, and there is a great deal of uncertainty about what is going to happen next. The last few years have seen a lot of prosperity with the consequent extravagance attendant upon it. This has brought the expected reaction during the last few months, when we have had a period of depression. During this period business has been conducted chiefly on hearsay, and there has been a great deal of seatteration of authority, of 'passing the buck' when it came to making...