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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tremendous Conservative majorities of over 200 the preliminary enabling bills for the Ottawa tariff accords (TIME, Oct. 24). Though the free trade Laborites and Liberals never mustered more than 90 opposition votes, Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain thought it necessary to lecture them, taking as his text Charles M. Schwab. Steelman Schwab had just said in London, ''Of course my business will be hurt by the Ottawa accords, but if the British Empire prospers as a result that will help us all," Cried Chancellor Chamberlain to the House of Commons, "There is true statesmanship...
...speaking tour for Governor Roosevelt in Philadelphia's Metropolitan Opera House last week, his voice was to be broadcast. Somebody blundered. The Senator spoke into dead microphones. Next day Publisher Julius David Stern's Philadelphia Record shrieked with an eight-column banner: THE RADIO FAILED! FULL TEXT OF SENATOR NORRIS' SPEECH IN THIS NEWSPAPER...
...shorter period covered by the extra session permits a reduction of about 25 per cent in room and board charges. Tuition remains unchanged, at $600, but room and board will amount to less than $400. This will make the total expenses for the session, including necessary text books, not over $1,000. Limited financial aid from the Loan Fund will be available to properly qualified students...
...stock characters. Throughout the series as in many another Hearst cartoon, the question of War Debts played a major part, with "Ropy" loudly boasting that he would "pay nobody" and " 'Erbie" trying to still his outcries. In most of the Opper pictures, which were supplemented with an irrelevant editorial text. National Chairman Sanders could be found inanely interviewing such fabulous characters as Sherlock Holmes, Baron Munchausen and Robinson Crusoe on " 'Erbie's chances." Inferior as art, the Opper cartoons, by their absurdity and persistence, have been highly effective...
...probable success of class discussions; it does stand as a warning. To avoid fruitless expression of opinion on everything from communism to room rents in the Houses, the topic for discussion should be strictly defined. It should if possible be based on the study of an assigned text, short enough to be thoroughly considered before the class meeting...