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...constitutional convention gathered in October to produce a final constitution which would be given to the student body for approval This convention, of which I was the chair, was composed of members elected from each House and the Freshman Yard, and six members of the defunct constitution committee to lend "expert" advice...
There seems no reason why that logic should not apply at Harvard. Certainly a more diverse Corporation could help improve the University's notoriously spotty record of hiring women and minority faculty and lend a more enlightened ear to issues than its homogeneity currently permits. Quite conceivably, a Corporation including minorities would have been more receptive to student demands for divestiture of investments tied to the apartheid-ruled regime of South Africa...
...trend, of course, is benefiting many people. The same consumer who pays high interest on a mortgage or auto loan may well be collecting high interest on a certificate of deposit or an investment in a money market mutual fund. Those who can avoid borrowing and have dollars to lend are reaping a bonanza...
...thing, U.S. law requires banks to keep a portion of their deposits in accounts at the Fed in the form of so-called reserves. By changing what is known as the "reserve requirements," the Reserve Board can determine the amount of money that commercial banks have avail able to lend out to borrowers. On a day-to-day basis, though, the Federal Reserve influences the money supply through "open market operations," or buying and selling Treasury bonds, bills and notes. Whenever the Federal Reserve wants to enlarge the money supply, it buys these securities and pays for them by putting...
Moreover, Frankfurter used the Harvard Law Review to lend credibility to New Deal legislation instigated by his mentor. During the '30s, Brandeis met regularly with Thomas G. Corcoran and Benjamin V. Cohen, F.D.R.'s legislative drafting team. According to Murphy, Together, Corcoran and Cohen drafted Brandeis' proposals into viable legislative acts, while simultaneously acting as Frankfurter's eyes and ears in the capital...