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...loyal Columbia students wipe eggs and tomatoes off the statue of Alma Maler, in the course of rioting following the expulsion of a student editor, three issues stand out: the justice of the editor's criticism of the John Jay dining halls, the justice of his expulsion, and the attitude which University administrators should maintain towards undergraduate editors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNDERGRADUATE PRESS | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...slaves and 500,000 free Blacks. During this 244-year period, at $50 per year, slaves earned $3,365,177,850 which they never got. Simple interest at 3% since Emancipation has raised this debt to the Negro race to $11,332,070,000. H. R. 10098 would wipe out the "debt." The Congress seemed distinctly uninterested in the De Priest proposal. '''Onetime slave owners and their heirs are estopped by the U. S. Constitution from collecting any claims for the loss of their "property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Slave Pensions | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...ring canvas was spattered with blood. Reporters at the ringside held up newspapers to shield themselves. The referee had to wipe blood from his hands between rounds. But still the awkward, stooping little fighter advanced, his gloves now at his head for relief from the hammering it was getting, and now in furious, smashing action against the ribs and head of his opponent. The little fighter's flat nose, freshly broken, bubbled redly as he snorted for breath. His head rocked as punch after punch landed on it. But on & on he went, crowding, slamming, tearing in like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Madman v. Triphammer | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...last week's proceedings were in the Committee of the Whole House and the votes, representing scarcely half the membership, were taken without roll calls. It was possible but not probable that the regular leaders could later wipe out the coalition's handiwork when the Committee of the Whole rose and the amended bill was put to a series of formal votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: To Hell with the Sales Tax! | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

...deficit of $42,000 last year plus $82,000 this year will entirely wipe out the Orchestra's surplus of $120,000. But the Musicians' Union, according to President Charles Humphrey Hamill of the Orchestral Association, is as much to blame as Depression. It demands $268,822 for 97 players (in 1891, the payroll for 80 players was $90,000). Understanding musicians used to run Chicago's music union but now shrewd swart James C. Petrillo is in command. Said he last week: ''There is no question of a reduction of the wage scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chicago's Plight | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

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