Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tennis (including the annual fall Yardling tournament), squash, fall baseball, and the newly organized Yard inter-dormitory touch football (a part of the ever-increasing House athletic program under the direction of Adolph Samborski '25) are other athletic enticements. Don''t be too down-hearted if your posture is censured to such an extent that you are forced to enter the six-week corrective exercise program. These sessions sound rather gruesome, but they are surprisingly enjoyable if you enter into the spirit of grunting and muscle-pulling...
Whether or not this year's surplus problems can be solved, the AAA last week fixed 1939 benefit payments at 26-to-30? a bu., 14-18? above the 1938 rate, for U. S. wheat farmers who reduce their acreage 31%. Otherwise, next year's crop-control program is substantially the same as this year's. Total amount earmarked for 1939 benefit payments...
Because they saw in their assignment an opportunity to study the whole question of business and its relationships to government, two members of the Congressional Monopoly Investigation committee-Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold and SECommissioner Jerome Frank-asked Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. to suggest a program for the investigators. To nervous, cocky Adolf Berle (rhymes with surly), this assignment was what a murder trial is to a cub reporter. Early in July Mr. Berle completed his "Memorandum of Suggestions." It was not quite the sort of thing New Dealers hand out to the press, but last...
...word, 23-page memorandum. Economist Berle ranged far and wide, played no favorites, outlined a program that might well keep the committee in session for at least a decade. "The investigation," he said, "should be essentially a search to find an organization of business that actually works...
...general program: "It is probably more effective to assist competition rather than legislate the large unit out of existence. . . . Where a high degree of competition will accomplish the result [a business system that actually works], that should be the method used. Where a high degree of cartelization under suitable control will accomplish the result, that should be the method. Where quasi-public owner ship produces the result, use that...