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Other difficulties eliminated by the Lehman Act include the double qualification standard, lack of co-ordination, and the difficulty of appeal for the immigrant. By providing a commission that would make a thorough investigation of the immigrant in his own country, the Lehman Bill avoids the repetitious job now fumbled by employees of the Justice and State Departments. The alien denied a visa would have the further assurance of a right to appeal to a special board that could over-rule discriminatory decisions by individual consuls...
Like Morrison, dozens of other U.S. builders are working around the globe. From the West Coast, Alhambra, Calif.'s C. F. Braun & Co. has gone to Australia to build a $25 million refinery for Standard-Vacuum Refining Co.; the Ralph M. Parsons Co. of Los Angeles has five projects abuilding in Japan, three in India, three more in Turkey and Iran, others in Sweden, England, Canada, Alaska, Hawaii and Colombia. San Francisco's Bechtel Corp. has been in Venezuela building the Cerro Bolivar iron-ore development (TIME, June 1) for U.S. Steel, is now on the other side...
University treasurers have never been constrained by any standard Harvard investment policy but rather have been given freedom to follow their own whim and wisdom. Naturally under the Statutes, the treasurer "is required to submit his accounts, and all evidences of the property under his charge, to the committees of inspection appointed by the Corporation and Overseers severally, and to make annually to the Overseers a statement of the receipts and expenditures of the University...
...June 30, 1953--the date of the last report to the Overseers, the University's largest common stock holding at market value was $7,037,000 in Standard Oil Co. (N. J.). At that time, the school owned between two and four million dollars worth of Seaboard Airline Railroad, B. F. Goodrich, Christian Securities, General Electric, North American Co., International Paper, Hartford Fire Insurance, and General Motors...
While giving this explanation, H.A.A. Business Manager Carroll F. Getchell added that the new scale would probably be "more or less" standard throughout the League. Officials from Ivy schools discussed football ticket rates in March, but no binding agreements were made, according to Getchell...