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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...session-the Revenue Bill of 1936. Far more significant than an ordinary revenue bill, it proposed a historic change in U. S. tax policy. Of the 150 Representatives who turned out for the start of the first day's debate, only 34 were left by 5 p. m. Throughout the next four days of deliberation, an average of not more than 50 out of the House's 435 members were on the floor...
...Boas argues that if common race prejudice had "instinctive" antipathy for its source, it would show itself in the most intimate of all contacts, the sexual relation. But throughout history slave-owners have bedded with female slaves of different race, whites have mated with Indians and Negroes. Southern children show no aversion whatever to black nurses, must be taught by their elders not to accept blacks as equals. The strongest antipathies are those between social castes like those of India and ancient Egypt - between people of the same race...
...only insurance against this poisoning of relations spreading throughout the system is for Yale to admit the source of trouble. Coach King's questionable interpretation of athletic rules and Mr. Farmer's reluctance to see any side of a question but his own, have forced Harvard into this unhoped-for and regrettable position...
...this system of voting were made uniform throughout the College, all residents of the Houses would have a much more direct control over those whom they were going to vote for, and consequently would be inclined to take a greater interest in the affairs of the House. Voting would be a two minute job before or after a meal, thus dong away with the difficulties of collecting signatures for petitions to add names to a ballot that a partisan Committee might have committed...
Even the notice of Dr. Archibald's kudos was erroneous. Said his citation: "His work led to the introduction of thoracoplasty in America. He performed the first operation in 1912 and, by writing and speaking before organizations, he helped to spread the method throughout this country." According to the late Dr. Fielding Hudson Garrison's impeccable History of Medicine: "Dr. George Ryerson Fowler (1848-1906) first performed thoracoplasty in 1893." Thoracoplasty consists of removing parts of ribs along the spine, on the side of the diseased lung. The ribs then collapse like slats into the chest cavity, preventing...