Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freshman Debate Council will hold its first meeting of the year at 7:15 p.m. tonight in the Union Upper Common Room. The lead-off topic is "Resolved: That Harvard should award between 6 and 12 full scholarships to outstanding football players, requiring only that they maintain the minimum scholastic standing...
Minus the services of their high scoring outside Pete Baker who was injured last week, the freshmen lacked the scoring punch which had enabled them to maintain an unbeaten string until yesterday...
Next Monday the American Ambassador to Yugoslavia is flying to London to discuss the "Tito Question" with the European Command of the State Department. Out of these talks should come a major decision on future American policy in Europe. Is the West content to maintain the status quo with Russia, or should it attempt to push the border back by encouraging unorthodoxy and nationalism among non-Russian communists? The U. S. is already committed to a $20,000,000 loan to Tito. The subject now is how much more help--if any--should be sent. In making up its mind...
...House drafted a bill allowing 90 percent fixed parity, which was rejected by the Senate in favor of the flexible scheme. During the 1948 campaign, President Truman promised the farmers to do everything possible to maintain a fixed parity based on some prior period of high farm prices. It is now the problem of the Administration to secure legislation which will make good these promises...
...House victory, but now there is some question as to which side will come out on top. The aim of a parity program is to give farmers a stable purchasing power, based on some former period of prosperity. The House plan would determine such a period and then maintain it as the price base; the Senate, on the other hand, favors more flexibility in the computing of support prices. Badly split, the Democratic ranks are fighting to hold the states they won in 1948, while the G.O.P. is doing its best to win them back. The farmers can only...