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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order to set up permanent headquarters for the Student Council, a committee of the council has been empowered to make recommendations and obtain estimates on furnishing a room on the second floor of Phillips Brooks House. The Committee consists of John B. Bowditch '37, president, George G. Hedblom '37, secretary, and Walter H. Page '37, treasurer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEPARATE ROOM IN P. B. H. URGED FOR STUDENT COUNCIL | 2/13/1937 | See Source »

...climax of an unsavory career. For others, who sympathize with such New Deal aims as social security, minimum wage laws, or conservative measures, the new proposal creates an embarrassing and highly unpleasant dilemma. The ends meet with nothing but approval; but the suggestion of packing the court to obtain these ends meets with nothing but censure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BY NO MEANS TO AN END | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

Vice President Weckler stoutly defended the use of spies. "It has long been a common practice," said he. "We must do it to obtain the information we require in dealing with our employes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: U. S. Terror | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...Bellicose John Lewis-pretending that the President's words were no rebuke and showing by his attitude that he plainly thought they were - blustered: "I do not believe the President intended to rebuke the working people of America who are his friends and who are only attempting to obtain rights guaranteed to them by Congress in a declaration of public policy in the National Labor Relations Act." Curious was Mr. Lewis' reference to the National Labor Relations Act. for his United Automobile WTorkers failed to invoke it in practice. Last week Strike Leader Homer Martin proclaimed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On the March | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...said to have commented on a statement published in the January 27 issue of the Crimson: "Wolf is said to know more about what is going on at Harvard than anyone else except the President of the Crimson. Whee!" and to have expressed the unreasonable desire to obtain a broader cultural background than could be acquired by knowing about Harvard or even about the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

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