Word: assignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cross section has been stressed so far; but it is not the only thing worth considering. Slight variations in the personalities of the Houses would do no harm but would make it far easier to assign students the Houses they desire...
...force crop cuts Senator John Hollis Bankhead and Representative William B. Bankhead persuaded the Administration to endorse their measure to tax surplus production out of existence rather than to try to spirit it off the market with cash. Last month the House passed (251-to-115) the bill to assign each planter a bale quota based on his past production and then tax him 50% of the market value of each bale ginned in excess of that quota. Prime purpose of the legislation was to hold the 1934 cotton crop down to 10,000,000 bales...
...time Napoleon goes to Elba Rothschild and the Duke of Wellington (C. Aubrey Smith) are great friends. When Wellington tells him the Allies propose a loan to rehabilitate France, Rothschild bids but fails to get the loan. Baron Ledrantz (Boris Karloff) collaborates with Metternich and Talleyrand to assign the bonds to gentile bankers. Greatly provoked, Nathan Rothschild sells government bonds of his own to depress the market and prevent the offering of any new ones. Thus he compels Ledrantz to assign him the whole loan, sends the market up again...
...would seem nearer to the truth to assign Veblen's vitriol to clear eyes and a sharp critical talent. More than any other man of the twentieth century, Veblen pierced the syllogized "classical economics" with its ridiculous labor equations and its mumbo jumbo on the credit system. It is through no fault of his that these things persist in the colleges of the nation, for much of his energy was spent in attempting to force them out. Mr. Bates remarks that he was handicapped, in his later years, by a delusion of prophecy that made him see himself...
...petitions filed by the Debating Council requested the University to appoint officially a Director and Coach for the Debating team, and to assign the Council a meeting place of their own. Edward M. Rowe '27, who has been coaching the debaters without pay, was unanimously nominated for this directorship. The Council also made a suggestion in regard to a meeting place, but what this was, Asa E. Phillips, Jr. '34, and Robert Breckenridge '34, officers of the Council, would not divulge...