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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explained that the average Britisher until a short time ago could not recognize the Sudeten problem as one to worry about, "until the Munich awakening made the British feel that they would go to war for much less than they would have during the twenties. And today, England is infinitely more alive to the danger than she was a week ago, because, for one thing, the prospect of a man breaking his work--witness Hitler--shocks the Britisher deeply...
...physician to give more adequate care to [poor] patients because such care would not entail an added financial burden to the patient. ... It would give greater financial stability to the physician as it would enable him to treat privately a large group of people whom he cannot treat today because of their inability...
Leon Henderson, a former NRA official, made a hurt defense of it. SECommissioner Jerome Frank explored "the question whether competition does not also at times lead to great economic and social waste," then suggested: "that the category of those industries which today we call public utilities, the category of industries where monopoly may be more desirable than competition, is not necessarily a closed...
Ford, General Motors and Chrysler today control 90% of the U. S. car market. Studebaker, Packard, Nash, Hudson and the few other remaining independents survive on 9% of the dwindling medium-price field. Since Studebaker emerged from 776 in 1935, Messrs. Hoffman and Vance, now president and chairman respectively, have been pondering this squeeze (on sales of 52,000 medium-priced cars in 1938 they lost $1,700,000). They decided the public would not buy any car smaller or less powerful than Ford, Chevrolet or Plymouth (vide the Austin and Willys). They knew they could not compete with...
...elections were to be abolished by the decision rendered today, it would be mechanically impossible for the morrow's voting to be constitutionally discontinued. This is the extent to which the Student Council is confident of a confirmation for its stand. The referendum comes when the whole class is politically conscious and expectant over the outcome. It comes when many Yardling groups have a vested interest in the current election, and are consequently unwilling to forego a chance to vote. It comes with such lightning rapidity that every freshman will hesitate to take such a mighty step with such great...