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...Present Setup. Now, the 48 states are using a hodgepodge of primaries, conventions and committee meetings to select their delegates (1,205 to the Republican convention, up to 1,590 to the Democratic...
...spite of widespread dissatisfaction with the present setup, and almost universal ignorance of its ramifications, the Douglas-Smathers proposals have little chance of adoption...
...operators had a wonderful setup for their scheme. Every year, CCC lends billions of dollars to farmers on their crops. CCC also buys crops, for the support price, holds them in Government-leased warehouses until the market price rises above the support price, then sells them. A handful of warehouse operators had been selling the grain when prices were high, hoped to replace it later with cheaper grain. But like the bank teller who borrows money from the till to play the horses and plans to pay it back when he hits a winner, many a warehouseman never got around...
...abolition of bowl games and out of season practice. He offered a three-point program of his own: 1.) setting up a standard set of entrance requirements which are honestly enforced; 2.) enforcement of a curriculum that will ensure that a boy graduates with a "respectable diploma"; 3.) a setup by which financial aid to the needy student is administered by an agency designated by the college president and trustees. He deprecated the attacks on college football, adding that "the temptation to suggest that some of these gentlemen who would reform us might perform a far better service by examining...
Among the expressions of Christmastide cheer received by many men between the ages of eighteen-and-one-half and twenty-six were induction notices from local draft boards across the nation. The event was marked with the haphazardness typical of the present draft setup...