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...Congress in 1923 by plumping for the soldier bonus and promising to "soak the rich," is not so radical as he sounded ten years ago. Today he is even rated as a "conservative with progressive leanings." The Grand Coulee Dam in Washington and the Hill Bill to boost tariffs to compensate for depreciated foreign currencies have been his most noted concerns...
...would get on his old one. Armed with an offer, he would shop around among other dealers in the same price range until he got a higher bid. Back he would march to the first dealer, who, hating to lose a new-car sale, would be likely to boost his first offer. If John Citizen were shrewd, he could play one dealer off against another until he got an allowance far higher than his old car would ever bring in the second-hand market...
...sense, the fact that there will be bare patches in the big steel stands is a boost for the judgment of Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell. When the football hysteria was at its height, when the undergraduate editors were shrieking themselves hoarse about overemphasis and when it looked as though the demand for seats and more seats would never be satiated, plans were drawn for a Stadium that would seat 120,000. But Dr. Lowell said, in effect: "Build in the open end of your Stadium, put in a permanent structure, but don't worry about handling more people than...
...editors of the Critic were protesting a year ago. Nothing in it is sufficiently novel, arresting or unorthodox to justify the Critic's existence as a separate publication. If it is not to be more of a gadfly than this, it ought to merge with an older sheet and boost the advertising rates. I trust that it will not. Harvard can use some gadflies, but they are a peculiarly useless insect if they do not sting. The obvious thing, I should think, is to look up some barbs
...conference. Even if he felt more inclined than before to caution, the President did not decide to abandon Professor Warren's ideas-not at least till they had had some further trial. Monday morning the R. F. C.'s gold price again was given another boost, was set at $33.45 (equivalent to a 61.79 cent dollar) and the dollar once more started down in foreign exchange...