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...Splawn report, result of Franklin Roosevelt's two months ago appointing a three-man committee of ICCommissioners, Splawn, Eastman and Mahaffie, to concoct a remedy for the railroad crisis, specifically said that the question of wages should be left to the railroads. Its other recommendations dealt with ways of lending money to the roads, increasing revenues, speeding reorganizations. Last week, after consideration by RFC Chairman Jesse Jones, Senator Burton Wheeler and representatives of railroad management and labor, these recommendations were out of the "conference stage," on the way to becoming legislative proposals...
...officially listed a Progressive, member of the House Committee on Interstate & Foreign Commerce, he is the father of a resolution to investigate the automotive industry. This was inspired in March 1937 by the predominantly Progressive Wisconsin Legislature, as a result of a State licensing law for automobile dealers which brought out the fact that certain features of the dealer business were interstate in character and therefore outside State regulation. Gardner Withrow's proposal was that the Federal Trade Commission investigate monopolistic features of the relations between automobile manufacturers and dealers. Congress passed the resolution last month and Franklin Roosevelt...
...direct result of the game, the relations between the British Empire and Vassar were, according to reliable sources, greatly improved...
...from the classes of '39, '40 and '41 expressed their desire to take part in the debates next winter as the result of a questionnaire placed in the Union, all the Houses, and Apley, Claverley, and Dudley Halls. The number from each class was almost equal, while each House averaged about 15 men, except for Dunster, which trailed with only seven enthusiasts...
Although not yet requiring aptitude tests for admission, Harvard gives voluntary tests to its first year men. After additional experience, the school plans to test the correlation between aptitude and later results. The result of trying to forecast law school results on the basis of college records tabulated for over ten years seems to be that "a poor performance in college is an indication of a lessened chance of success in law school." Yet one cannot interpret the data to mean that a person who gets A's in college will necessarily do well in law school. The figures...