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...company like A.T. & T. the stockholder would undoubtedly have been informed of any important special charges against earnings. But an unscrupulous management could temporarily deceive its stockholders as to the profit trend. An official of another company using twelve-month reports, replying to a newshawk's complaint that the plan made it impossible for a stockholder to learn what his company earned in any given quarter, blandly declared: "That's the idea...
...protested. Some businessmen thought the tax bill was sound in aim. Many considered it half-baked but relatively harmless. Some expected to profit by it. And most of those who expected to be pinched by higher taxes were either resigned to their fate or convinced of the uselessness of complaint. Therefore only twice during last week's hearings were committee ears held close enough to the grindstone to be rubbed red by its rough contact...
...days later Mess Sergeant John Maresca rebutted this interpretation, testified that Fleischer had specifically ordered "one of each item of the menu of Thanksgiving dinner for his lady friend, Ella." Sergeant Maresca also revealed that Fleisher had been foolhardy enough to send a ham to Major Renn Lawrence, whose complaint led to Fleischer's court-martial...
Like all institutions that make any attempt to limit their own bigness, the fields of concentration, with their exclusive-sounding quotas, have been criticized for placing obstacles in the way of would-be concentrators. The cause for this complaint is purely superficial, and the limitation of the field has so far failed to be in any way a barrier to the freedom so necessary in choosing a field of concentration. Friendly influences and external pressure being what they are, the university often recognizes an obviously bad choice when it sees one, and in such cases the student is gently...
Since the University has made no effort to freeze into a permanent mould the relative size of the departments, there is no cause for complaint about the harshness of the quota system. Many departments have already increased their quotas, bowing to popular demand, and it is hopeful that similar reorganization will constantly take place in accordance with current preferences. The quotas are set mostly for administrative purposes alone, and the Freshman in good standing who has the conviction of his choice need have no fear of the specter of a departmental lockout...