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Long-time private supporters of the Fogg Art Museum yesterday assailed President Bok's decision to end a three-year expansion plan, warning that the move would severely restrict the University's ability to raise money and threaten Harvard's traditional preeminence in the field of Fine Arts...
...problem was that farmers kept producing surpluses, and there was no mechanism to maintain prices. The solution long advocated by an obscure Montana State College professor named Milburn L. Wilson was to restrict production, but that would require an unheard-of amount of Government supervision. With the election of Roosevelt, Wilson was able to convince the incoming Agriculture Secretary, Henry Wallace, to carry out his idea. "I tell you frankly that it is a new and untrod path," Roosevelt declared in sending the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) to Congress that May, "but . . . an unprecedented condition calls for the trial...
...purge was as embarrassing a failure as the court-packing scheme. All nine Senators won re-election in 1938. Hardly less embarrassing was the fact that a recession in 1937-38, caused partly by Roosevelt's efforts to restrict Government spending, set back the recovery. Unemployment rose by 2 million within three months; steel production sank by three-quarters, auto production by one-half. For the first time since the great crash, the Republicans made a comeback, gaining seven seats in the Senate and 80 in the House. Just two years after the landslide of 1936, the New Deal...
...event of unauthorized disclosure of such information, Government employees who have had access to that information will be subject to investigation to include the use of all legal methods." Since the bureaucracy is usually quite free in wielding the CLASSIFIED stamp, the rule could conceivably be used to restrict most discussions of policy...
...Ford Administration. It charged Ma Bell with violating a 1956 consent decree that had settled an earlier Justice Department antitrust action against the company. Under the terms of the 1956 settlement, AT&T was permitted to retain ownership of Western Electric, but it agreed at the same time to restrict its future business activities to local and long-distance telephone services...