Word: harvey
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...Without reasoning why, Ohio University's Dr. Harvey C. Lehman reported that U.S. leaders are growing older by the generation. In 100 years, said Lehman, the age of the average Congressman has risen from 35-39 to 55-59; Justices of the Supreme Court from 48 to 56; members of the Cabinet from 46 to 60. In the Revolution, the average age of generals was 39; in World...
Another grandiose Social Credit idea turned out last week to be bankrupt. In Alberta's Supreme Court, Chief Justice Horace Harvey and his four colleagues ruled that Premier Ernest Charles Manning's sweeping "Bill of Rights" was unconstitutional. The court's reason: Alberta's brand of Social Credit would infringe on Dominion control of banking...
With such provisions Alberta's Supreme Court found no inherent fault, although Justice Harvey found some parts of the bill incomprehensible. But Premier Manning and his Social Creditors came a. legal cropper on their means of financing the benefits. They proposed to set up a five-man Board of Credit Commissioners to estimate the value of all the "assets" of the province (mountains, rivers, forests, etc.), developed or undeveloped. All this blue-sky calculation would add up, Premier Manning and friends reckoned, to the grand sum of $231 billion. To this figure they proposed to add the "capitalized productive...
Conspicuous by his absence among the sprinters is Doug Pirnie, holder of the University 220 yard dash record, who will probably not run at all this season. In his stead, Bob Cameron and Harvey Thayer are slated to compete...
Typical of the light Idler touch was the use of period music for this Jacobean comedy. An exceptionally competent quartet of string players, from the Harvard orchestra, under the guiding hand of arranger Maxwell Harvey '44, played snatches of suites by Purcell and Handel and a Lully concerto during the frequent changes of scene. Instead of the usual discordant effect of incidental music, last night's aided and abetted the harmonious tone of the staging...