Word: harmfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honor if offered. He has for at least two years had the almost public backing of Pope Pius XI. Whether or not that backing may be nullified by political jockeying in the conclave which elects the next Pope after Pius XI dies, Cardinal Pacelli could do himself no possible harm by showing himself to the nation whose Catholics give much toward supporting the Church, whose faithful have heretofore never seen a Pope, before or after election, on their own soil...
...volume published a few days ago "Exchange Depreciation" Harvard University Press, Seymour E. Harris '20, Professor of Economics, studies the epidemic of exchange depreciation that since 1931 has directly affected almost the entire world, and attempts to answer the question whether it has done the world more good than harm. Part I is devoted to a discussion of various theoretical issues raised by current experiences with exchange depreciation. The most important question raised is whether depreciation tends to raise prices in the markets of countries off gold or whether it tends more to depress prices in world markets. The weight...
Prominent last week in the Legion's parade, and looming so large in Cleveland that the convention seemed like a huge family party, were the Legionaries' wives. Robust Mrs. Lorena Harm of Wayne, Neb. was elected to succeed Mrs. Melville Mucklestone as national president of the Legion Auxiliary and her job seemed so big that she prepared to put her 9-year-old son under her sister's care in order to devote all her time to Auxiliary affairs...
...secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a Yale Phi Beta Kappa key holder to join. When an acceptance arrived on N.A.A.C.P. stationery, the City Club hastily sent an emissary to beg Ne gro Piekens to let his invitation "drop for fear of doing harm." Officials in Hyannis, Mass., who last month flunked Harvard's crusty 79-year-old President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell in a driving test (TIME, Sept. 14), gave him a new examination, announced that he had passed it, been granted a new license...
...Perhaps the Curley car was not going over 50 miles, as has been testified. Perhaps it was not passing another car at that rate and perhaps the Governor's person is so estimable in the sight of the powers that be that he will always be miraculously shielded from harm. In view of the fact that he has been involved in a long string of accidents and is notorious throughout the state for the reckless speeding of his cars, the above supposition luckily holds but small liklihood...