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...under the auspices of the Harvard Debating Council to which all interested Freshmen are invited, will be held in the upstairs common room of the Harvard Union on Thursday at 7.15 o'clock. The new plans for this year, which will be discussed in full then by F. C. Packard '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking, and R. B. Eckles '32, president of the debating council, include the organization of a Freshman debating council which, save for the initial guidance of the University team officers, will have complete control of the conduct and schedule of the 1935 team...
...announced last evening by R. B. Eckles '32, president. Candidates will be required to give a three minute speech on Hoover's recent proposal for a $500,000,000 credit organization. The judges will be J. M. Swigert '29, coach, E. M. Rowe '27, coach, and F. C. Packard '20, assistant professor of public speaking. Candidates will be judged on their delivery rather than on the subject matter of the speech...
...again an advertisement appears which catches all the subtleties of a vast subject in a few sentences and deposits a polished idea in the public mind. Such a statement appeared last week in the newspapers of seven big U. S. cities, written by Alvan Macauley, president of Packard Motor Car Co. He posed the question, "A Dollar For Dole-Or An Hour Of Work?", a question looming larger & larger before the country as the convening of Congress approaches. Mr. Macauley found the root of Depression in the unemployed dollar, "the dollar that is afraid to venture forth. . . . When the slacker...
Besides being a leader in a great consuming industry, Alvan Macauley is an able publicist. He did not primarily urge the purchase of a Packard or any other motor car. He did indict idle money. He cited the well-known statistics of raw materials consumed by the motor industry to show that "the motor car dollar will go more places more quickly, and affect more people for quick relief than any other dollar. ... It can well become the 'self-starter' for better business and greater prosperity...
This statement appeared also in the Detroit papers, and was immediately contradicted by Alvin McCauley of the Packard Motor Car Co. and Mr. Fisher of the Fisher Finance Corp.; also the controller of the Chrysler Corp. stated that he had no knowledge of any such syndicate. It seems that the statement had its origin with the Detroit City Controller Roosevelt. However, the later editions of the paper stated that no such syndicate had been formed for the purpose of lending Detroit...