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...Washington had heard of Harold Ickes when Franklin Roosevelt announced his appointment. Pennsylvania-born, he had worked and scraped to get through the University of Chicago and its law school. Marriage to a wealthy divorcee gave him time to dabble in progressive Republican "trustbusting" politics, but did not alter his orthodox notions about the value of a dollar. The orthodoxy led to his memorable Washington feud with White House Favorite Harry Hopkins. Ickes wanted the Depression relief funds spent through his Public Works Administration on big projects that would pay for themselves, like TVA and the Boulder and Grand Coulee...
...following list is incomplete, we apologize to anyone who is left out. First our thanks to the Faculty Committee on Undergraduate Activities, for steadfastly refusing to alter the philosophy of its rules for organizations. To the Housemasters, and later to Dean Bender, for clinging to the seven o'clock deadline on women guests. To the Republican party's experts on the Far East for their quixotic, bombastic, and highly vulnerable songs of praise to the Formosan leader, Chiang Kai-shek. To the dependable legislators of Massachusetts, for their yearly playful attempts to legislate Communism out of people's minds...
Later in the conference, he quoted from Article 7 of the Massachusetts Constitution, which says: "The people alone have the uncontestable and unalienable right to institute government and to alter or totally change the government when safety, happiness, and prosperity require it." Pointing out that not only he, but the District Attorney too has taken an oath under the Constitution, he said that he will always stand for it, but "never go beyond...
LAST month I visited Russia; unofficially and briefly it is true - but since I went neither as a fellow traveler nor as part of a Democratic Delegation, I was at least able to use my eyes. Being unguided and unhustled, although watched and followed, I saw enough to alter all my views...
...Dean as originally proposed. The CRIMSON stated editorially last spring that it favored the proposals made by Dean Bender's Faculty Committee and endorsed by the full Faculty. This last editorial merely attempted to point out that unless certain important problems could be worked out--problems which would radically alter the original plan--the system might not be practical after...