Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swelled up. I have just read three newspapers and also heard the ''Voice of the United States News" over the National Farm and Home Hour, all commenting on the overriding of the President's veto of the "Veterans Bill." Practically no notice is taken of the fact that this was 40% Veterans and 60 % Political Jobholders Bill. Incidentally, the gentlemen who voted to override the veto raised their own wages $1,000 per. The other $500 will come later. I understand that Senator Borah offered an amendment to cut out all salaries over...
...cause to doubt his slogan. For three years he had doggedly fought off failure. He had cajoled his bankers into renewing and renewing bank loans which were thrice his company's current assets. Reorganization plans had fallen through but new ones had been devised. "It Can Be Done" read the slogan, but last week, having exhausted the bankers' patience, Herbert Henry Franklin saw his venerable company pass into bankruptcy and the hands of a receiver...
Those desiring to enter the competition for places on the Harvard-Radcliffe delegation should communicate with Professor Packard at Holden Chapel before 2 o'clock on April 18, the time at which the competition will be held. Each competitor will read for six minutes and the selections read may be either one long poem or several short selections. The Vassar meeting will be held on Saturday, May 12. On Sunday some of the readers will broadcast from New York City...
...homogeneous unit and when lumped together they make preparation for examinations very difficult. Furthermore they are at present given in the second week of the school year which means that the great number of students who must work during the summer have only two weeks in which to read the works of two Ancient Authors, eight books of the Bible, and a number of Shakespeare's plays. The net result is that this important and interesting phase of the field is neglected almost completely, and the examinations instead of stimulating breadth of view, become another of the annoying duties attendant...
...have read with interest your issue of March 30th and congratulate your paper on picking out the important item in our invitation to E. F. Hanfstaengel '09, to return to his twenty-fifth reunion and to be an aid at the Commencement alumni exercises...