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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard has kept up. Harvard today is more conscious than ever before of the voice of the lower classes: " . . . one third of the nation . . ." It is more appreciative than ever before of the need liberal and enlightened leaders. It is more convinced than ever before that Henry Adams was right when he demanded that both sides of every issue be expressed. It is closer than it has ever been to its ideal of "veritas," for like a true democracy, it puts its trust in the common sense of the individual and offers him every school of thought from which...
...eleven days, while scores of G-men and thousands of neighbors scoured lower Florida in vain, the dead body of James Bailey ("Skeegie") Cash Jr., 5½, lay in a palmetto thicket not a mile from his home in Princeton, Fla. Heavy rains and scorching sun left the body unrecognizable except for the white-&-rose pajamas Skeegie wore when someone took him from his crib (TIME, June 13). But not even a sharp-eyed buzzard found the remains, till late one night last week, a surgeon, a State prosecutor and twelve G-men led by Chief John Edgar Hoover came...
...some judges have abused the power to restrain unions, recent Federal legislation has treated U. S. District judges like problem children. In most labor disputes. Federal injunctions are forbidden by the Norris-LaGuardia Act. The Wagner Act routes , appeals from NLRB decisions direct to U. S. Circuit Courts, forbids lower courts to enjoin the Board, in general assumes that the less District judges have to say about labor cases the better...
...Chicago wheat exchange 4½? a bu. day after the report was issued. But at 80?, wheat was still 30? under last spring and it looked as though only a major crop loss from rust and bad weather or vast New Deal lending could prevent the price from going lower...
...protecting profits they had made in the bull market since 1932. Six months later, the Dow Theory gave a definite signal that the U. S. was in a bear market (ebb tide), had been in it since March. Thus, because it was succeeded by a wave with a lower crest and a lower trough, the March wave was proved to have been the high mark of the 1932-37 incoming tide. When September's definite signal was given, the Dow-Jones industrial average was at 165; speculators who then sold stocks have avoided a loss of more than...