Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just how to lend & spend $2,816,905,000 to halt Depression II was the main subject before the Senate last week. Mississippi's Bilbo explained for four hours how to end Depression II by sending the South's unemployed Negroes back to Africa. Illinois' J. Ham Lewis, the Administration's whip, created a minor sensation by crying: "How can we continue the present state without completely exhausting the Treasury? Such a program [of relief] will not only exhaust the Treasury but will exhaust the capacity of the taxpayer to pay further." But the pump-priming...
...present Chemistry 15, General Biological Chemistry, is the only course which has a particularly close relation to the field of concentration. It is not well organized and the main remedy for this seems to be definization of the reading so that a student would know where he was supposed to be headed. It is now a second half year course and could easily be increased to a full year, and if laboratory arrangements could be provided, they would be very valuable. One good point in the course is that it brings in men from the Faculties of the various fields...
...pointed out that both Houses have already given approval to three of the main points, namely the executive assistants, the Department of Public Welfare, and the power of the President to rearrange agencies, Pettee placed part of the blame for the Bill's defeat on "the over-optimism which caused the Administration to insist on the whole Bill or nothing...
Last week, however, Papa Dionne was appeased. After an all-day conference between him and other guardians, an agreement was reached. The main provision was the construction of a new home to be paid for by the Quintuplets, under which all the Dionnes will be reunited. Said jubilant Papa Dionne after the conference: "That's the first time I was given any satisfaction...
Defendants' method of capture, as described by Mr. Ballantine, more or less boiled down to these three main points: 1) Control of an investment trust called First Income Trading Corp. was bought with money borrowed from Paine, Webber and repaid from First Income's own assets. 2) Control of Continental was bought from the Schroder bank by the same methods, but in an involved transaction between a) an Ontario enterprise known as Fiscal Management Company Limited, b) First Income, c) Continental, d) Schroder, e) Paine, Webber. 3) Control of Reynolds was bought from the Reynolds family...