Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Harvard is expanding into a great national University is the most conspicuous phase of its present development. President Lowell, in his recent report, showed the working of the new admission requirements and noted particularly Harvard's intimate connection with the entire country. However, important work remains yet to be done, and this service the Federation of Territorial Clubs has been designed to aid. In many sections of the country misconceptions and prejudices exist to the detriment of the University, and these unfounded popular ideas have persisted because not combatted...
...read Pundit Lippmann's column in full. He too made the statement, which he signally failed to support with any evidence, that this country's people have changed in their attitude toward war during recent months. Now you say the same thing; or at least I so interpret your rather awkward sentence; though you do not say whose attitude has been changed, or how many attitudes...
TIME had no intention of implying that the people in the U. S. are less pacific now than they were when they turned against the League of Nations. But that they are less inclined toward isolation and more inclined to collective action, TIME, considering recent public polls and public utterances of prominent Congressmen, trade unionists, editors, liberals and Democratic wheel-horses, does not doubt...
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...
...instructive if somewhat unsightly object lesson in the laws of genetics has been provided in recent months by M. Etienne Letard of the National Veterinary School at Alfort, France. M. Letard has bred a race of hairless cats. One or two hairless kittens appear from time to time in the litters of two perfectly normal Siamese parents...