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...than prices to home owners and other small consumers and a prime conviction of the Coal Commission is that rebate practices have favored industry and railroads at the expense of small consumers. Therefore, in setting up minima, the Commission arbitrarily raised the price of railroad coal to a level nearer that for small consumers. The A. A. R. protested through John Carson, consumers' counsel, whose job was specially created by the Guffey-Vinson Act to protect the consumers' interests. But the B. C. C. refused to reconsider its action. The A. A. R.'s success in court...
...comparison with the Government in office in France from the spring of 1936 to the spring of 1937, the present Government may be said to (1 have swung slightly to the Right, 2 be more radical, 3 be reactionary, 4 be pseudo-fascist, 5 be nearer that of Soviet Russia...
...blood-stained, professorial axe of mid-year examinations slowly descends nearer and nearer to the tender, bared flesh of the undergraduate neck, student red-corpuscle-pressure mounts steadily higher, and a kind of feverish anxiety speeds up the ordinarily sluggish tempo of daily life. Under these circumstances, time becomes an all-important and vital factor; the primary object of the day's curriculum is to employ every minute, even every second, on the well high insurmountable task of cramming all those important, little bits of academic wisdom into the old cranium. As the undergraduate hastily slips into the dining hall...
...Lloyd Wright which lesser architects have played against him for all it is worth. The architect's original estimate of its cost was $250,000. By mutual agreement this was later raised to $350,000. It is now apparent that the final cost of the building will be nearer $450.000. This sort of thing has happened often in Wright's career, and the hostile argument runs that few businessmen are as able as rich Mr. Johnson to stand the gaff of perfectionism at like cost...
...Harvard delegates to the American Student Union Conference at Poughkeepsie acquitted themselves better than on some occasions in Cambridge, and showed qualities of leadership and intelligence which have been often lacking in their actions nearer home. Following the trend of the times, they successfully defeated the Oxford Pledge group, compromised on an anti-conscription resolution, and stood out firmly for a policy of placing economic sanctions on an agressor nation. Their ability was recognized when Robert Lane '39 was elected to the National Chairmanship by students from all over the North American continent...