Word: whether
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There has been a good deal of discussion about whether the University will appoint an "administration man" such as David M. Little '18, Secretary to the University and Master of Adams House, or will name someone unconnected with University Hall, since some faculty members feel that the individuality of the House might be sacrificed if someone unfamiliar with House traditions, new though they are, receives the post...
Today psychiatrists again apply with scientific refinements something very like medieval shock treatment to victims of schizophrenia (dementia praecox). Most common form of insanity, schizophrenia packs 200,000 patients in U. S. mental hospitals. Whether social, psychological or physical difficulties cause schizophrenia no one knows. A schizophrenic may believe that he is Napoleon, or that his children are trying to kill him. Or he may fall into rigid positions, lasting for hours. For many schizophrenics there are no more human emotions-only a slow retreat from life into deathlike stupor. Less than 6% are lucky enough to come back...
Harassed President French replied: ". . . The proposed plan would avoid the waste, expense and losses which would be involved in a judicial proceeding which would probably be necessary. . . ." Other not-yet-insolvent railroads wondered whether Mr. Jones would urge similar plans on them...
...former Investigator Douglas had been suspicious for years about plans being railroaded through courts without the judges having had a chance to decide whether they were scrutinizably fair, feasible and equitable. He had attacked many a plan as inequitable for giving the common stock rights when it really had no equity if creditors and preferred stockholders got their just due. When Douglas became Chairman of the SEC, he sponsored the Chandler Act which set up a special SEC division to study reorganization plans and inform judges about them as "friends of the Court...
...year. In all that time gloomy, barrel-tested, bald Will Keith has kept a mighty grip on his firm's affairs. When he appointed executives, he is reputed to have made them give him undated resignations. When he wanted to tell them something, he called them to him, whether he was in his office or at his Gull Lake estate. Last week, however, it appeared that the autocrat of the breakfast foods, 79, had picked his successor...