Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have its football squad practice until 6.30 o'clock every day? Or, is Harvard to continue to subsist on the scanty fare of an annual victory over New Hampshire? Either alternative is undesirable in the extreme, and it is the task of the Committee to find a path that will lead between these poles on some middle course. That is, it must develop a policy which will bring at least a fair average of success in conflict and yet will avoid the creation of a group of semi-professional athletes, whose existence in the University is justified solely by their...
...leading business interests of the country and has precluded cooperation between Washington and Wall Street. In this mutual antipathy and distrust, many economists have found a leading cause of the failure of industry to respond to the artificial stimuli embodied in recovery legislation. With this obstacle removed from the path to prosperity, the government new faces again the barrier of labor hostility. But with 20,000,000 people on the federal relief rolls, it is impossible to understand the opposition of sincere labor leaders to a program whose stated objective is the reemployment of idle millions. Granted that in this...
...Democratic Bosses, Septuagenarian Patrick A. Nash, and State's Attorney Thomas Courtney, picked Edward Joseph Kelly, chief engineer of Chicago's Sanitary District, to be Mayor. Big, red-haired Irishman Kelly and his political friends did not have an easy time. The Hearst papers strewed their path with thorns, broke the news that Mayor Kelly had to make a tax settlement to the Federal Government of $105,000 because of $450,000 income which he did not report at a time when he was drawing $15,000 a year salary from his official jobs...
Liberty League. Last week it did not appear, however, that the Republicans would dare risk a conservative campaign in 1936. If the Democratic Party should turn left, thus blocking the path to the formation of a progressive opposition, and if the Republicans refuse to take up the banner of conservatism, it is conceivable that a new party may arise by division of the Democrats. The leading conservatives in Washington today are Democrats. Outside Washington the leading conservative movement is the American Liberty League which has John W. Davis, Alfred E. Smith, Irénée du Pont, for directors...
...draws his historical parallels from any period later than the 1870s, balanced his explanation for last week's bullishness not on the possibilities of an inflationary Congress (see p. 12) but on the "not at all ungrounded belief that this period's recovery from depression has pursued the general path marked out by previous experience...