Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...credit for recent progress must go to President Conant and two of its educational innovations. The American History Plan is designed to promote an integrated conception of the civilization which America as a whole has produced. Still more important is the National Scholarship Plan, which brings to Harvard prime academic products of the South, Middle West, and Far West. Its benefits are twofold: it increases the scope of Harvard's services to the country, and its strengthens college life by contacts with new and varied points of view. President Conant has laid down an excellent highway; it remains...
...order to be national. The subject is important because of its relation to Harvard's present development, and decidedly opportune, for the work of the Federation is to help make Harvard national. What President Eliot has to say this evening will probably constitute a masterful statement of Harvard's prime problem...
Round No. 2 amounted to an about face in the Treasury's recent credit policies, which helped bring on the Depression. A year ago when Government's prime concern was not Depression but a runaway boom, the Federal Reserve Board boosted bank reserve requirements. This cut down the total of potential credit in the form of excess bank reserves and made money a little more expensive to borrow. Last week the President told Congress it was now time to lower reserve requirements-which the Reserve Board did forthwith. Net effect of lowering reserve requirements was to increase excess...
Immediately after the signing, Premier Mussolini and Prime Minister Chamberlain exchanged cablegrams of warmest friendship and at the U. S. State Department experts said that a long step had been taken toward blocking another European war, laying the foundation for ultimately drawing Britain, Germany, Italy and France into a Four-Power Peace Pact...
This week Britons hoped that their dynamic, somewhat dictatorial War Secretary will get on well with Dictator Mussolini, to whom he is carrying a warm message of personal regard from Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Premier Mussolini has not been visited by any member of a British Cabinet since June 2 5, 1935-the fateful summer day on which Mr. Anthony Eden had a personal quarrel in Rome with the Dictator which affected the whole history of contemporary Europe. Just before the War Secretary left England by plane for Malta, where he will inspect naval defenses before going to Rome this...