Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Organized in an attempt to collect funds for the relief of windows and orphans in General Franco's territory, the meeting is the first in a series to be held in the major American cities...
...waive judicial precedent and end the reciprocal exemption system whereby the Federal Government may not tax State employes' salaries and the income from Governmental bonds; whereby, also, States may not tax Federal employes' salaries or income from State or Federal securities. Last week he did so. ¶ Major White House visitors of the week: Union Pacific's William Averell Harriman, who discussed a Business Advisory Council meeting at Sun Valley, Idaho; Chairman Frank R. McNinch of the FCC, to discuss the Commission's investigation to ascertain whether radio broadcasting is a monopoly; Idaho's Senator...
...guest speaker of the evening was Frederick P. Keppel, president of the Carnegie Corporation. Talking on the subject of "Foundations and Endowments, Major Industry," Keppel said that recent tendency in philanthropic work has been to find the cause and remedy for suffering rather than merely palliating it. This tendency is especially true of medicine...
Each year it has been the policy of the Crimson to indulge in an investigation of some major aspect of Harvard University, and from the facts to put forward constructive criticism. In making a study of the Freshman class, we have tried to understand, from the student point of view, not only the relations between the Freshman program and the other parts of Harvard's system, but also the relation between the University's general policy and modern education...
...Senator Burton K. Wheeler are on record as believing that most intermediate holding companies should be eliminated; Governor George Earle of Pennsylvania likes to assert that the long fingers of J. P. Morgan reach into too many crannies for the public good; SEC Chairman William Orville Douglas argues that major financing programs should always be subject to competitive bidding. Last week all three of these themes ran through the complicated story of a battle for control of rich Chesapeake & Ohio Railway...