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Signed by Francis O. Matthiessen, associate professor of History and Literature, and David W. Prall, associate professor of Philosophy, the communication represents the sentiments of many of the original signers of the memorandum which was presented to nine senior professors in May of 1937 asking for an investigation into the Walsh-Sweezy case...
With Dean Leighton's 1938 memorandum, Freshman advising in Harvard has at last been recognized as an integral part of its teaching. Praise for this latest reform should be divided between P.B.H., President Conant, Dean Leighton, and other officials, all of whom contributed to its enactment. No more will the service, which eighty-four tutors, instructors, and proctors were supposed to render, be gratuitous; no longer can charges of incompetence be based on lack of time. Now the head and tail of a worm that would spoil any theoretical apple have been destroyed. By no means, however, is the problem...
...firm of Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co.. dealing largely in securities and commodities, last week chose to be optimistic. Reckoning that inventories are now notably depleted and that the slump has been accentuated by the advancing of the Automobile Show from January to November, it noted in a memorandum to customers "that business has actually been doing better during the past two or three months than is generally believed and that there may be some upturn in industrial activity during the ensuing months...
...occasions when White House Secretary Steve Early incurs the gratitude of his chief by a spectacularly able job of work, he is likely to get a penciled memorandum: "Well done-F. D. R." Last week, Secretary Early got his first such memorandum in two years, after a press conference of his own in which he explained that the President will keep none of the money he gets from newspaper and magazine contracts for his State papers; that he will ask Congress for special legislation to dispose of the money...
Franklin Roosevelt's reaction to this onslaught was to pass out to the press, without comment, a memorandum from Directors Morgan and Lilienthal which had been in his hands since Jan. 18. Having been prepared before the chairman's charges were made, it did not answer them. But in it the majority directors accused the minority chairman of obstructive tactics in failing to abide by majority decisions, charged that Chairman Morgan had collaborated with private utilitymen to hamper the Board's program, implied that the sensible conclusion would be for Minority Member Morgan to resign...