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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extent of the repudiation of the New Deal is questionable. In many cases, including the important Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Massachusetts elections, local issues or personalities greatly obscured the New Deal question, and frequently the latter was not put at all. Furthermore, the Democratic losses are partly the normal mid term reaction, considerably accentuated by the fact that Americans do not like depressions. Finally, the repudiation is not generally that of liberal New Deal principles, which were endorsed since many Republican standard-bearers were fully committed to such untraditional doctrines as social security, collective bargaining, farm and unemployed relief. What...
Bluenose (slang term for a Nova Scotian) was defending the International Fishermen's Trophy for the fourth time under her skipper, Captain Angus Walters, a peppery old salt. The challenger, Gertrude L. Thebaud (named after the wife of a Gloucester summer resident who put up most of the $78,000 necessary to build her eight years ago), was making her second attempt to regain the trophy-with Captain Ben Pine at the wheel...
...high; 2) a horizontal wage cut would not meet the emergency since the savings would not go merely to the needy roads; 3) a wage cut would run counter to the present trend of U. S. wages; 4) the railroads' distress since October 1937 is still a short-term situation which the current improvement in business may correct; 5) therefore, the roads should drop the whole idea...
...Francisco a municipal swimming pool, zoo, park all bear the name of Fleishhacker-not only because Banker Herbert Fleishhacker was a big contributor to them, but because when serving a brief term as a park commissioner he named almost everything but the city sidewalks after himself. Generally regarded as the West Coast's No. 2 financier (Amadeo Peter Giannini, No. 1), Herbert Fleishhacker for years has headed Anglo California National Bank, seen its deposits zoom from $4,500,000 to $200,000,000. Last week his career as a banker was over...
Supplementary trials for inter-House teams will take place tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the Leverett Common Room. Subjects of the trials, for men who missed the individual House trials, are: Roosevelt's third term, the Reorganization bill, athletic scholarships, and movies: beneficial or harmful. Trials speeches are to be three minutes long...