Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to the plan set up in Leverett House members of the House committee must stand for reelection in their Junior year, and at the last election Barnes and William H. Wright '38 were reelected. Two other Juniors were also elected for the first time. They are John C. Harkness '38 and Ernest D. Hazelton '38. Robert M. Coquillette '39 was the sole Sophomore added to the committee...
...with all production-control schemes, purpose of the Chadbourne plan was to raise prices. They dropped. In 1930 the average world price of sugar was1½?per Ib. In 1932 it was 10?, considerably below the cost of production. With tariffs and import quotas keeping the world market limited without any limit on the amount of sugar dumped in London, the price has remained depressed. Last week raw sugar at Cuban docks was quoted on Manhattan's Coffee & Sugar Exchange at 1.18? per Ib., with domestic contracts being made...
Author Reis offers a remedy. He does not name it but it might well be styled "Investors' Research" after Consumers' Re-search for which Mr. Reis was secretary-treasurer in 1932-33. His plan is to form a national organization with dues assessed to individual security owners according to their holdings. A paid staff of lawyers, accountants and financial experts would analyze and evaluate new issues as applications were made to the SEC for listings.* Investors' Research would not only issue confidential bulletins to members but they would attend stockholders' and bondholders' meetings, play watchdog...
...over three hundred men of the Class of 1940 refused admission to the Houses, and with all but a few odd rooms praceled out on the first assignment last Saturday, the University has been brought face to face with the most serious problem since the inception of the House Plan. For if the House can cope with only two-thirds of each sophomore class, the question of where to put the remainder and which the Houses bring to the rest of the College looms all-important...
Above all it is imperative that the University, the House masters as well as University Hall, recognize that it has an intolerable situation on its hands. With hundreds of students up in arms because they cannot share in the advantages of the House Plan, it is obvious that some action, even if only a stop-gap solution should be take to salve the justly wounded students who have been left unplaced...