Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With respect to your general doctrine that a deficit will bring about business recovery, I call your attention to the fact that Mr. Hoover did very well in this matter. He had a deficit of $3,153,000,000 in 1932 preceded by a deficit of nearly a billion...
Professor Pearl (from Baltimore the next day): "My publication ... of life tables of smokers . . . showed that smoking was harmful. ... So far from not having been given publicity, the matter has been printed in every cross-roads newspaper in the country and the clippings have been delivered to me by the pailful...
...comment upon the plan, Aldrich Durant, Business Manager of the University, to whose office the petition will eventually go, told the CRIMSON last night that the chain had been locked at the early hour at the request of residents and "to maintain peace and order." He pointed out the matter of the noise of automobiles and said that the Housemasters will have something to say in the matter...
...pointer immobility. The tension became intense as the two vied for honors to determine who could last the longest. Finally a humane student, probably a Student Union member, fearing both would drop from exhaustion, let out a high pitched shriek which called the squirrel's attention to the matter. The rodent scampered up the nearest tree, the hypnotic attraction was gone, and dog, woman, and students disappeared about their respective business...
...They must justify their stand, or confess ignorance of what's been going on," he said last night. "If they do the latter, I'll ask them to withdraw gracefully from the contest. As a matter of fact, I expect either to be completely ignored or subjected to a bitter personal attack...