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...arbitrator President Hoover summoned House and Senate leaders to breakfast, listened to them wrangle over the question of procedure. His desire was twofold: 1) to beat the debenture; 2) to hasten the bill to passage. To gain these ends he sided with the Senate that the House should lead in voting on the conference report. The House leaders bowed to his will, returned to the Capitol to plan for their body to pass this week on the points at issue. President Hoover was quite aware that if the House, as he confidently expected it would, again rejected the debenture plan...
...Warden Bell points out, the difference is twofold; first the Oxonian colleges, rather than the University itself, assume most of the responsibility for teaching. Secondly, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge are mutually "self-supporting, self-determining and self-contained corporations". Neither arrangement will obtain at Harvard, for the House Plan is a dormitory reform and nothing more. --The Daily Princetonian...
...made for bicycles he introduced a new valve, now used on 85% of automobile tires. Other Schrader products include metal parts for hot water bottles and footballs, tire pressure gauges, air-hose fittings, valve tools, and the original product, diving suits. The Scovill Co. derived from its purchase a twofold benefit -it secured in Schrader a prosperous subsidiary plus a large user of Schrader metal...
Recent developments in the "Strange Interlude" controversy were twofold: students will circulate a petition today protesting against the ban, and Walter Prichard Eaton '00 will address an open meeting at the Harvard Liberal Club at 7.15 o'clock tonight discussing the situation...
Hague Settlement. Two days more were needed to whip the Midnight agreement into formal shape. A third day saw it signed by all the delegations at a final plenary session, after which the Conference contentedly adjourned. Basically the settlement thus reached is twofold financial and political...