Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent radio address in the current Alumni Bulletin, and from which excerpts are reprinted on the opposite page, Mr. Charles C. Burlingham, former President of the Harvard Alumni Association, has taken issue with another great Harvard graduate on the matter of the Supreme Court change. Perhaps it is repetitious and futile to continue arguing a subject on which most people have already made up their minds, but when a liberal leader of the bar, who has fought for the cause of good government in a Tammany-ridden New York for over a generation, speaks out against the reorganization proposal...
...head of the Government here. Suffice to say that they were in poor taste. "What would the people of the country from which he comes think and say if one of our labor leaders went over there and openly attacked the Governor of a State or, for that matter, the President? They'd be apt to take him for a ride on a rail. "Mr. Martin is riding about in a private plane while the people he claims to represent are walking the streets. That shows what kind of a man he is." Meanwhile at Oshawa matters proceeded with...
...among the Chinese masses that strict censorship killed the story entirely out of all newsorgans controlled by the Nanking Government, and it was forbidden even to print that a Red had done anything so estimable as do homage to an Emperor of the glorious past. As a matter of curious Chinese fact, the Red Lin Po-chu of last week is the same Mr. Lin who in his youth had a job in the Imperial Manchu Government, is today a Red best fitted to do Emperor-homage in the way in which Chinese prefer in their hearts to do almost...
...busy preparing for press a book on the labor policies of Standard Oil Co., which he investigated on a Wertheim Research Fellowship last summer. Confronted with these arguments, President Conant replied that the budget of the economics department was "clogged up," that so far as Harvard was concerned the matter was closed...
Death & Taxes, No matter what State gets Colonel Green as a resident by Surrogate Owen's ruling, the U. S. Supreme Court will be the court to settle once & for all the question of domicile for tax billing purposes. The tax schedule which Texas' Attorney General William McCraw filed with the Supreme Court placed the gross value of Colonel Green's estate at $44,384,500. This may be as much as $50,000,000 short of the final figure, for as yet nobody knows exactly how much Hetty Green's big cub did leave. According...