Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simple. Possibly other members of the University are of the same opinion. I think that impression arises from too casual an examination of the plan. The effects of the Harvard Debating Council Plan are numerous and far-reaching. I am giving below some of the less obvious effects ofeach item...
...Item 1. It does not repeal the Eighteenth Amendment (that requires a two-thirds majority in the legislatures of three-fourths of the states, as well as a two-thirds majority in Congress...
...widely respected figure and by giving publicity to a scurrilous jest, which would have been in bad taste eight months ago when the news was fresh. Apparently you have been waiting all this time to print it and now finally have found a flimsy excuse in a news item of no general interest...
...bullish item last week was an extra dividend by National Lead Co., together with profits of $10,000,000 against $6,000,000 in 1928. But in the statement of Lead's president, Edward Joel Cornish, were bearish notes. Sales of babbitt metal, of which this company is the largest manufacturer, dropped 35% in December and 45% in January, compared to a year ago. Since babbitt metal's chief use is in factory wheels, it is evident that the wheels have slowed...
...tiny profits. In one year the F. W. Woolworth Co. sold 45 tons of candy, 5,113 miles of curtaining, 54 million handkerchiefs. Miss Pidgeon showed that, though their sales had doubled in a decade, this enormous turnover brought no enormous wages to salesgirls. Labor is a prime item in chain-store operation. Where customers can readily see the entire stock, make their selections unaided, the cheapest, most inexperienced young clerk can perform the simple task of wrapping bundles, ringing up receipts...