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...subject of the debate has been tentatively chosen as, "Resolved, That in the interests of world prosperity, the war debts should be cancelled." The question was chosen expressly for this debate by G. W. Wickersham, former Attorney-general of the United States and chairman of President Hoover's commission on law enforcement. Since the Harvard team was the challenger, Oxford will have the choice of sides and presumably will choose the affirmative...
...first half, but with a hard-fighting line, the Rattlesnakes succeeded in holding their class rivals from then on. The lineup: COBRAS RATTLESNAKES Solbert, Vitaghan, l.e. r.c., Hershon, Pringle Sturgis, Frisch, l.t. r.t., Allen, Berkman Cassidy, Pearon, l.g. r.g., Huston Walsh, Ottugo, Mczel, c. c., Tobin, Wickersham Weld, Ottuge, r.g. l.g., Greene, Maun Carman, r.t. l.t., Todd, Page Barnes, Ingersoll, r.c. l.e., Violi, Bowle Hamel, Parker, Lincoln, Weber, q.b. q.b., Evashwick, Dimmer Maddex, Cartly, l.h.b. r.h.b., Mogur Good, Reardon, r.h.b. l.h.b., Stevens, Coggswell Rafes Low, f.b. f.b., LeRoy
Deputy George Woodward Wickersham took strong exception to this conclusion. He called it Soviet. He said: "I think it would be a sad day when the American people abandon the principles on which they have grown to greatness. This is perhaps one of the most important pronouncements that the Church has ever been called upon to make, and I object to being bound...
Deputy Rev. John Howard Melish of Brooklyn who helped write the report pointed out that many of its recommendations were quoted from or based on statements of Gerard Swope, Owen D. Young and Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis. Nevertheless, upon Deputy Wickersham's complaint the House of Deputies deleted the House of Bishops' recommendation ("representing the mind of the Church"), said merely that the report was "given careful consideration...
...Richard Prouty '35, E. H. Roorbach '34, C. S. Rugg '35, R. S. Russell '35, E. R. Sargent '34, Malcolm Seymour '35, J. W. Stanley '35, G. F. Stork '35, R. .W. Swift, Jr. '35, T. W. Thorndike '35, Ross Vroom, Jr. '35, John Ware, Jr. '34, G. W. Wickersham, II '35, P. D. Wilkinson '35, R. D. Williams '34, and F. P. Whitbeck...