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"Ah, but this coffee loan isn't to support a Brazilian monopoly!" ? that was what suave Mr. Speyer or somebody for him had to say to the State Department, convincingly. It was said ? convincingly. Last week Acting Secretary of State Joseph P. Cotton officially announced that the administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Coffee Sword | 4/21/1930 | See Source »

With such widespread objection to the status quo, those who directly control our statute books cannot afford to ignore the thunder on the left. Modification, a quibble at best, may or may not solve the problem. What is certain, however, is that Prohibition is distasteful to a great mass of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aye | 4/15/1930 | See Source »

Mr. Mitchell's potent objection to this bill?without which, it was conceded, machinery for juryless liquor trials can hardly be set up?served to squash the chances of any immediate legislation carrying out this prime recommendation of the Wickersham Commission. The Attorney General had strongly supported the Wickersham proposal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Five & Ten Trouble | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

The methods of admission, as outlined by Philip W. Thomson '02 are as follows: A candidate must be proposed by a member of the club, and seconded by another. Letters of recommendation are addressed by these two to the committee on admission, which numbers in the neighborhood of 20 graduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO SENIORS WILL BE ON HARVARD CLUB COMMITTEE | 3/25/1930 | See Source »

If questions such as these were asked in three hour examinations there could be no objection, for they avoid the Scylla of calling forth a mass, of unassimilated fact. Unfortunately this test has gone to the other extreme and fallen into the Charybdis of asking for too much in a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROM SCYLLA TO CHARYBDIS | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

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