Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chairman Morgan's suggestion, at which Commonwealth & Southern's Wendell L. Willkie and other utilitymen discussed a "power pool" for merging TVA and private power systems. David Lilienthal has proposed a version of the power pool himself but at the time it looked to him as though Chairman Morgan was consorting with the enemy. David Lilienthal considered himself justified in his opinion, inasmuch as five months before the White House "love feast" (whose results were inconclusive), 19 southern utility companies, including four Commonwealth & Southern subsidiaries, had sought to tie up TVA's power program by challenging...
This play, despite the social axe it has to grind, is pretty much of the famous old black-and-white melodrama. Wall Street is perhaps the real villain, and it is indicted for the murder of all its speculators and their souls. But the old veteran bull, Nicholas Vanalstyne, though he relishes smashing his enemies, wouldn't think of leaving an orphan or a widow dispossessed by him to suffer in penury. His son, heir, and namesake, however, is a rotter pure and simple. He has lived in sin, but he throws the odium of the crime on his innocent...
There is a temporary solution, however, which might be put into effect; and that is a system of Student House Associates. Without too much discomfort each House could extend its privileges to twenty or thirty extra students, though it is doubtful if libraries which are already crowded during reading periods, could stand any extra packing. The Plan would alleviate the unwarranted discrimination against men who happen to have bad luck in their applications. For, every year the House Master must turn away certain students, because they have only ordinary marks, because an over demand happens to exist in the type...
...name "Harvard" is practically self-sufficient in the Boston region. A substantial, though restricted diet can be taken care of by the Harvard Fish Market, Meat Market, Creamery, Potato Chip Company, Pickle works, and Brewing Company...
Perhaps most radical change suggested in the statement is the declaration that "we oppose a method of election whereby a candidate with a slight margin, frequently one or two votes, is declared elected even though he has polled nothing resembling a majority of the votes cast...