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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personal twist to the awful and stupendous problem which the Young Plan was devised to solve: "It is quite natural in times of depreciated commodity and security prices that debtors should ask for a readjustment of their debts. I would be glad to do so myself. Unfortunately, it takes twice as many securities to pay my debts as it did when I incurred them. I could make a very good moral argument, if anyone would listen to me, that my debts should be reduced, but I would not expect to get a hearing unless my creditor was satisfied...
...without its financial compensation.** Last fortnight he and his friends tried to arrange a debate on the subject with one of Bishop Manning's priests, who declined. But the Church-men's Association, dominated by anti-Manning clergy, invited Mr. Lindsey to speak to them. Bishop Manning twice telephoned to prevent the meeting. He had no right to interfere. The Association is outside his church organization. But he said he was speaking for the Association's president, who was away at the time. Members voted to hear Judge Lindsey, who then loudly told the Bishop he would...
During the past year the Hostess House has become more than ever indispensible to the Health Department of the University. The report contains the following summary: Of the 41 guests, eight of whom were welcomed twice and one five times, five Seniors, one Sophomore, and seven Freshmen came from the College. Seven came from the Law School, seventeen and one instructor came from the Business School, and one from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...since 1927 have the Norwegian guardians of the trust fund of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Swedish dynamite tycoon, found anyone worthy of the greatest of their beneficences, the so-called Nobel Peace Prize. They made up lost time last "week by awarding the Peace Prize twice in succession: for 1929 to Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime janitor, lawyer, onetime U. S. Secretary of State; for 1930 to the Most Rev. Dr. Nathan Lars Olof Jonathan Soderblom, Archbishop of Upsala, primate of the Lutheran Church in Sweden, father of twelve. Each of these distinguished gentlemen will receive $46,430. U. S. newspapers cheered...
Dartmouth scared Stanford once or twice when Quarterback Morton broke loose, but most of the time Coach Warner's men had the ball and the situation well in hand. Caglieri's touchdown in the last period made it Stanford 14, Dartmouth...