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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This and other aspects of the plan will be discussed in detail at the meeting in Cambridge of the Associated Harvard Clubs on May 23, 24, and 25, at which President Lowell, the heads of the prospective houses, and the architect will probably speak. At the same time we will have the opportunity to hear the suggestions of Harvard men from different parts of the country as to the best solution of this problem, without doubt the most interesting which Harvard has faced for many, many years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Opposition to House Plan Unfounded Says Williams | 2/26/1929 | See Source »

More specific was Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa, who was born in a log cabin remote from the money-changers. Why, argued Senator Brookhart, quibble about such a detail as prohibiting merely Federal Reserve Banks from making speculative loans to Federal Reserve Bank members? Let us prohibit any loan by any bank to any borrower who might put the loan to speculative purposes. Radical also was the remedy offered by Utah's Senator William H. King, who has ascertained that 85% of speculation is made on margins, and who believes therefore that marginal trading should be abolished. Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Federal Reserve v. Speculation | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Round 20. In this round several thousand words were hurled. Mr. Aldrich mailed to stockholders a 69-page pamphlet summing up Mr. Rockefeller Jr.'s objections to Col. Stewart and reviewing in great detail the Stewart conduct for the past seven years. Col. Stewart immediately flayed the Aldrich pamphlet as "a cunningly drawn document . . . nothing less than cowardly and dastardly libel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rockefeller v. Stewart | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...book is a reporter's story, and its merit is that of all good reporters' stories--the fairness and accuracy of detail that is the living truth itself...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: Arctic Tragedy | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...tangled with the bow, how to get into a shell after a crew has pushed off, without adopting the woeful methods of Buster Keaton, and how to steer a course nor'nor' east by nor' through the murky haze of the basin will be considered in every detail. The hardest feat to master, that of coxing two miles in a tight race and keeping the remnants of vocal cords in their natural position, will be the final triumph of the school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prospective Coxswains to Gain Steersman's Lingo Seasoned With Billinsgate--Special Course Given to Aid Vocabulary | 2/16/1929 | See Source »

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