Word: recommendations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appointed special master to recommend on the issue to the Supreme Court of the U. S. was Lawyer John S. Flannery of Washington. Last week Master Flannery made his report, and Massachusetts, with a tax claim of $4,947,008, was his pick...
...Frenchman, one German and one Italian-thus weighted 3 to 2 on the side of the democracies. Neutral observers predicted: "The Czechs now have a good chance to win most of the plebiscites," which are to be held by November 30. The Commission of Five is empowered to recommend "minor modifications in strictly ethnographical determination of the zones which are to be transferred without plebiscite." An annex to the pact of the Big Four decreed that Britain and France immediately join in "an international guarantee of the new boundaries of the Czechoslovak State against unprovoked aggression." This was an historic...
...With the security exchange and the utility industry both come to heel, SEC's next major move is the long-awaited regulation of investment trusts. After three years' study, SEC last week sent Part I of its report to Congress, will send other installments this summer, later recommend legislation. Largely a survey of the field, Part I produced the following gloomy statistics: 1) since 1929 assets of investment trusts have shriveled from $7,000,000,000 to $3,700,000,000; 2) of 1,272 investment companies existing at one time or another between 1927 and 1936, only...
...happy to report its opinion that there was no departure whatsoever from Harvard's tradition of tolerance and of untrammeled scientific inquiry." But the committee said the dismissals were a mistake, held President Conant partly to blame for a "misunderstanding." Dr. Conant had asked the economics department to recommend two of its seven instructors for promotion. The department, unaware that this meant the dismissal of the other five, chose two more experienced members, but considered Drs. Walsh and Sweezy so promising that it asked for a three-year renewal of their appointments.*Thereupon, President Conant fired the two instructors...
...interact with a combination of such elephantine whimsy and strained heroics, that neither they not the action they produce is more than remotely interesting. The action itself, though artificially stepped up by a series of unlikely reverses, is not too improbable, but it has no graces of presentation to recommend...