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Main obstacle to these amendments is the undying Townsend Plan. Last week smart Bob Doughton and his committee figured out a way to silence Townsendites for this session, hotspot some 60 Republican Congressmen (including Minority Leader Joe Martin of Massachusetts) who traded intimations of support for Townsend votes last year. Without reading the latest Townsend Bill, Doughton & Co. got the House Rules Committee to push it onto the floor this week, ban all amendments and force a roll-call vote. "I think you fellows just took this monkey off your backs," joshed Rulesman Martin Dies of Texas. Massachusetts' Republican...
Last week as Colonel Lawrence had hoped, the British Government did bow to expediency, belatedly fulfilled part of her Wartime pledges to the Arabs. The Government's new Palestine plan acknowledges the claims of Arab Nationalism by limiting Jewish immigration and planning the establishment in ten years of an independent Arab-controlled Palestine...
...Council report has had to deal with a great variety of factors; and considering its subject, a seventy page report is a fairly concise analysis. There is, however, some excess material. The recommendations concerning concentration and distribution, the tutorial system general examinations, the teaching of courses, and the House Plan are largely reiterations of any comments on facts already known to students and Faculty. But on one question, the Council's bloodhounds have struck off on a more original scent. To enable Harvard to regain its illusory objective of a really "liberal" education, the report recommends the establishment of five...
...thesis on Illinois school finance in 1924 started Floyd Reeves toward national renown. He made 400 surveys of school systems and colleges, became the No. 1 U. S. expert on college administration, directed a survey of University of Chicago, where he is still a professor, that shaped the Hutchins plan...
Today at 49 Floyd Reeves is wiry, quick, dynamic. Facing his new job-to help draft a plan for helping Youth and see that it is carried out-he complained last week that Youth's opportunities were narrower than when he was a boy, suggested that Youth be allowed to vote at 18 in order to reduce the electoral odds now favoring oldsters...