Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Contingent upon a favorable report from their Finance Committee, the Student Council last night approved the proposal that men in the Yard be relieved of the necessity of eating breakfast in the Houses, and that their board charges he reduced proportionately...
...Student Council Committee on the General Education Report will hold a reorganizational meeting at 5 o'clock Monday in the Student Council Room of Phillips Brooks House. The Council is especially anxious to enlist those men away during the war years...
...their checks fail to arrive when due, veterans should report to the V.A. representative at the Counsellor for Veterans Office, Weld Hall 11. The date at which he will be available will be posted there towards the end of each month...
Furthermore, court-appointed receivers held on to war-brought cash "in far larger amounts than were needed or could be justified. . . ." They should have used it, said the report tartly, to reduce funded debt and thus reduce interest charges. Actually, fixed interest charges of bankrupt roads increased 4.1% between 1940 and 1944, while charges for other roads, free to use wartime earnings to decrease fixed charges, declined 12.5%. In effect, said the report, the road in trouble is "gouged...
...days after the report appeared, the Wheeler committee sat down and revised the Wheeler bill, S 1253, which would permit railroads to reorganize themselves voluntarily under the ICC. In this way, the committee hoped that roads would save reorganization fees, and maybe common stockholders would get a better break. This week, while awaiting action from the Senate on its investigation resolution, the Wheeler committee opened hearings on the new bill...