Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...declare war. Many and complex were the causes leading to this decision made by the President and Congress. To hang any large part of the "blame" on J. P. Morgan & Co. seems to TIME to be first-class politics and third-rate history. TIME, Aug. 14, made a point of the fact that before the U. S. entered the War the House of Morgan was sentimentally and financially interested in helping the Allies to obtain loans and buy war supplies in the U. S. This is the gist of what the Nye committee established. But between this fact...
...would you choose Mr. Roosevelt or someone else? Answers: 34.9% would choose Mr. Roosevelt, 53.3% would not, 11.8% didn't know. Who else? was the next question. The polices said: Don't know, 63.8%; Dewey, 9.6% ; Garner, 8% ; Vandenberg, 6.1% and on down to a vanishing point with Taft, Hull, Hoover, McNutt, Landon...
Harvard, whose property in this city of 100,000 exceeds the value of all other property combined, is always a battle ground for the local politicians. They point to its $164,000,000 worth of property and compare it to the paltry $161,000,000 on which they can levy taxes...
Perhaps a fight over this sore point may not develop this year since the University has just offered to give the Cambridge City Hospital a complete X-ray plant and guarantee its upkeep...
...assault on the battered bulldog was resumed in the spring when an outstanding track and field team rolled up a record score at New Haven, 91 2-3 to 43 1-3. The track team beat Holy Cross, Northeastern and Dartmouth and placed second by a fraction of a point in the Heptagonal Meet, but lost out when it combined with Yale to meet an Oxford-Cambridge squad at White City, England, on July...