Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Results of former conferences led the Phillips Brooks House Association to decide against an official delegation this year and to limit the Harvard representations to unofficial observation...
...been one filled with almost insurmountable difficulties. First it was the question of unemployment. Now when this question is still far from solution, there comes a plea from Germany for a cancellation of the debts which she owes the United States. She says that she has reached the limit and cannot pay the reparations or the interest on her debt. Unless relief is given, disaster is claimed to be inevitable. This would mean a facist or a communist state and the accompanying military or economic danger as the case might...
Small Switzerland, where the Conference met, is one of the world's largest manufacturers of narcotics, with Turkey a potent rival. Opium poppies are raised without limit in China and Persia, a fact which sorely vexes Indian poppy growers who are now forced by the British Government to cut down their acreage 10% each year. U. S. experts boast that U. S.-manufactured narcotics are found in only 1% of U. S. raids, almost never found in raids abroad. These facts, the U.S. delegation will argue at Geneva, suggest that U. S. methods of supervising and limiting the manufacture...
Harvard, dear, old, trustworthy Harvard, is planning a course for prison wardens. If this is not "reductio ad absurdum" to the limit, we are at a loss to understand what it is.... Just what degree will be awarded at the conclusion of this work in higher education is not as yet suggested but very likely it will be something imposing like "B. B. R." meaning "Bachelor of Bum Rehabilitation...
Germany has again protested against the burden that the reparation payments place upon her people and now declares that the limit of privation has been reached. Senator Borah, chairman of the committee on foreign affairs, took immediate notice of this plea. He reiterated the old but forceful objections to the reparations as placing a burden on Germany without helping the recipients of the payments and as a possible cause of the seriousness and extensiveness of the depression. With a touch of demagoguery but with none the less soundness he pleaded for the reduction of the debts that "ground down into...