Word: local
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President signed the bill ending immunity of Federal employes from State taxation, State and local employes from Federal taxation...
Pittsburgh was reported swinging from isolation to hemisphere defense, but not yet to helping in Europe. Schenley High School, a famed local barometer, voted 55-45% against "cooperation" with France and England. Talk about the war-products possibilities of Pittsburgh's multifarious factories made labor recall war wages even as capital recalled war profits...
...long been meditating, and the result of years of rehashing is the Harrison Bill. Called by President Roosevelt one of the most important of his tenure, its purpose is to equalize educational opportunities among the states by grants from a federal fund and still refrain from interference with local policy. To tax one part of the country in order to support the schools of another may be a breach of state autonomy, but it is the only means of preserving to rural America a vestige of public education. The Southeast cannot support schools of the standard set elsewhere...
...that because of their paucity applicants from Arkansas have a better chance of admission than those from Pennsylvania. To make its scope more national, Harvard depends on higher standards among Southeastern and Southwestern states. Equality of education throughout America is a boon to the colleges as well as the local communities, and equality depends upon the passage of the Harrison Bill...
...costly to the Boston University nine in its first tilts, and this inner defense will have to be bolstered considerably to cope with a Crimson squad which has taken full advantage of its spring trip and is rapidly rounding into mid-season form. The contest will be the first local appearance for the Stahlmen, and on Friday they will travel to Princeton for their second league clash...