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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unemployed folks out here, Elliott, who've got to be taken care of, and we don't see how Garner's economy program is going to mean food and jobs for them. If 'Cactus Jack' and all his bellowing calves in Congress would really get behind the old man and quit sniping at him and upsetting the country and business, we'd be able to put these jobless to work all the sooner...
...Leader Barkley contributed a laugh, however. To make sure no Senator misunderstood, he intervened to have a question reread before a vote was taken. Then he got balled up himself, voted the wrong...
...first time in five long years of much discussion and little action, Harvard has taken definite steps to ameliorate its Housing problem. Yesterday University Hall gave out the gladsome tidings that the Associate Member Plan has been adopted and that preference in the admission of upperclassmen to the Houses has been assured. Such a move as this must be gratifying not only to the Freshman class but to the whole college as well; for the cleavages between House men and out-of-Housers which have become increasingly sharp recently will now tend to disappear...
Whether this action will prove sufficient to solve the House Question "in toto" is very doubtful, but a great step has been taken. For when thought is once converted into action, as has happened in this instance, it is likely that suggestions for definite measures in the future will be more readily met. Indeed, it is this aspect of the decision that is as cheering as any tangible achievement made toward alleviating this problem. For, excellent as these moves are, they cannot be regarded as final solutions. There yet remains to be solved the very thorny question of House selection...
...eyes out. With recovering, costing about 10?, balls can be made to last for 100 years. Played like four-wall handball, kin to pelota, pallone and other Basque games, it was probably originated by bored debtors in Fleet Street prison about 1800. Like court tennis, it was soon taken over by the notably solvent, is now the luxury of a comparative handful in the U. S. on 14 courts in exclusive clubs. Main U. S. racqueteer is a Manhattan broker, Robert Grant...