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Under the support plan suggested by former Secretary of Agriculture Brannan in 1949 the second method would have been used. But to prevent farmers from flooding the market, raising the cost of the support program prohibitively, the Brannan Plan included a quota system to restrict crop production. The response of Mid-Western farmers and conservative farm organizations was prompt and negative. The alleged "regimentation" and dependence on a yearly Congressional appropriation were so repulsive that the proposal had to be shelved...
Another important aspect of the curriculum is the restriction of the amount of courses offered to students. A look at the Princeton catalogue shows that there are only about half the number of courses in corresponding departments at Harvard. The basis for this policy again goes back to Wilson who felt a need for a counterbalance to the free-elective system, originated at Harvard by President Eliot and spread through other universities. As Wilson saw it, Harvard under Eliot had performed the function of liberation, but had left education in disorder. Wilson decided that it was Princeton...
...think there'd he too much change in Council under a plurality system," declares incumbent Edward A. Crane, CCA-endorsed. "We would still have coalition government in Cambridge. Unfortunately people will go back to bullet-voting which is un-American. It entices people to restrict their franchise." Crane does favor retention...
...Milton E. Lord, director of the library, at first refused to restrict the books in any way. But it was getting near election time, so members of the City Council and even Boston's Mayor, John B. Hynes, began to call for various forms of restriction. On October 4, 1952, the trustees voted to "weed out" certain "obvious Communist propaganda documents" from the library. The Post then sent reporters to the towns of metropolitan Boston to publicize any which kept Soviet and pro-Soviet periodicals in the open...
...exempt under all proposed plans. Instead, the biggest dent, dollarwise, would be made on those who have the most to spend on nonessentials. As for a pyramiding of the tax, Congress could easily prevent this by requiring retailers to leave out the tax when computing markups. The tax might restrict sales temporarily. But at the same time a deflationary period might be the best time-politically-to impose such a tax, since its impact would be less if imposed on falling prices...