Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just as these embers were beginning to glow less brightly the Harvard attackers found a new brand with which to keep the fire blazing. Plan E, their latest point of offensive, struck essentially at local political rule, and since Harvard men were prominent in its organization, a direct connection with the University was made possible. The political cannon trained their muzzles on Plan E, and finding the range to be the same as that of Harvard, banged away all the more happily in that knowledge. The result has been such a cloud of ill will between Cambridge and Harvard that...
...Harvard continues to ignore the foes in the wooden horse, as it has done in so far as possible to date, the danger is slight, and Election Day should bring at best an armistice between town and gown; at worst, the temporary defeat of Plan E. But Harvard must always be prepared for political assault of this kind so long as its "academic freedom" includes complete freedom of political thought to its teachers and students, and as long as Harvard's name is bigger news than most individuals'. As a progressive ideal in education, this privilege, extended to teachers like...
...soon as all were registered, SEC Chairman William O. Douglas ordered them to file tentative plans for integration by December 1. The bulk of the industry then sat back to see what E.B. & S. would do. Last week E.B. & S. gave in and announced it would file on December 1 an integration plan, declaring-in direct antithesis to previous statements-that filing was the "realistic approach to a difficult and highly controversial problem...
That the New Deal was eager to turn the apples of discord into sweet cider further appeared when Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson summoned four utility bigwigs to Washington to discuss the Administration's long-bruited plan to foster a billion dollars worth of utility expansion for purposes of national defence. Taking the hint, utility stocks soared to new highs for the year on the New York Exchange, led the industrial and railroad averages also to new high ground...
...Sold 3,000,000 bushels of wheat to Mexico under the export subsidy plan, Mexico will pay for the wheat with proceeds of its export tax on the silver its mines sell to the U.S. The U.S. Government thus pays the Mexican piper both ways-taking one loss by selling the wheat at less than the market price, taking another by buying the silver at an artificially pegged price...