Word: questioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Question Up Three Years...
...Crimson in an editorial Monday morning accused the Student Council of bad faith in deciding to hold a referendum on the question of Freshman elections. According to the Crimson, "If elections were to be abolished by the decision rendered today; it would be mechanically impossible for the morrow's voting to be constitutionally discontinued. This is the extent to which the Student Council is confident of a confirmation for its stand." At this writing, Monday afternoon, I do not know how the referendum is going to turn, out. I do know that if the Nays have it, the Council tonight...
Leon Henderson, a former NRA official, made a hurt defense of it. SECommissioner Jerome Frank explored "the question whether competition does not also at times lead to great economic and social waste," then suggested: "that the category of those industries which today we call public utilities, the category of industries where monopoly may be more desirable than competition, is not necessarily a closed...
Although Lazaro Cardenas justifies the expropriations on patriotic grounds, there is no question that they have almost brought Mexico to its knees economically. Oil exports have fallen 50%. Cost of living is sharply up. And Cardenas has promised that within ten years Mexico will compensate for all it has taken. General Amaro was the first Presidential candidate to broach this issue. "I deem it unpatriotic," he stormed, "to create obligations of an international character for the country in the knowledge that we have not the financial capacity to comply with them...
With the suddenness of a Nazi diplomatic bomb, the referendum on elections burst upon defenseless freshmen this morning. They are given absolutely no warning; they are given just as little time to think. Showing an unfortunate tendency to steamroller techniques, the plebiscite fails to present the question fairly. By its timing and by its management, it is calculated to stampede freshmen into approval of the old system...