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Last year 300 graduate students were employed as proctors, being paid $1 an hour and working upon an average six or seven hours during the year. About 150 will be employed this year as head proctors and in courses given by professors without assistants. The saving in the budget of the Records Office will amount to approximately $3000 in the course of the year. All examinations are affected, not merely hour examinations...
...about to "abolish poverty." For two years President Hoover minimized Federal deficits, missed his guess as to their total size by about four billion dollars. Public distrust of Treasury policy was at the root of last winter's panic. The President was two years late getting around to budget balancing. Declared Democrat Garner...
According to Speaker Garner the President "did not raise a finger" to help in the House tax fight and. when the sales tax was torn to shreds, he "chuckled and jeered." His treasury chiefs supplied such bad estimates of revenues that the House's budget-balancing efforts were largely "frustrated" and today's collections are running 45% behind expectations. "The budget is not balanced." declared Speaker Garner. "The whole job must be done over...
...Poli tics, Raddio, Two Cars in Every Garage?a Chicken in Every Pot. This year the election turns on larger but less concrete issues. At work below the surface are economic forces too abstract and complex for the average cartoonist to depict?the Gold Standard, War Debts, a Balanced Budget, 50¢ wheat, "Pork," "Panic," Credit Inflation, a Change. The Republicans are fighting a defensive battle on a Record that does not lend itself to easy lampooning. Ridicule of the Democratic attack has been mostly superficial and clumsy. The only new personality to enter the campaign is the Forgotten...
...budget for this year has not yet been made up. Last year, when $8000 was contributed in pledges and at registration, $4000 was turned over to Phillips Brooks House for distribution to charities directly connected with it, and $2000 more to six major organized welfare groups. The Committee on Friendly Relations with Foreign Students and the American Red Cross both received $500, while $250 was presented to each of the following: International Student Society, Salvation Army, Industrial Aid Society of Boston, and the Cambridge Chapter of the Boy Scouts of America. The remaining $2000 was expended on class elections...