Word: conservationism
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Education. Boss Pew still winces when he recalls that he "fell for" Franklin Roosevelt in 1932. He continued to support the New Deal until NRA tried to fix oil prices and regulate the ruggedly individualistic oil industry. This was too much for Joe Pew. Said he: "Price-fixing is an...
Depression I put an end to the halcyon days. Turpentine prices slumped from better than 50? a gallon to 31? in 1931, rosin from $8.50 a barrel to $2.95. By 1933 the housing collapse and a shrunken export market reduced the naval stores industry to a pauperish $13,792,000...
Benjamin F. Wright, Jr., associate professor of Government; George C. Homans, Instructor in Sociology; Kenneth P. Kempton, lecturer on English; Frederick R. McCreary, preceptor in English Composition; and George L. Stout, head of the department of Conservation. Fogg Art Museum.
> Passed a $90,069,139 deficiency bill which provided, among other things, for soil conservation, 45 new agents and five clerks in the Secret Service to protect the President and his family amidst "conditions in this country arising as a result of the wars in Europe."
The ghost of financial stagnation first cast its shadow over Harvard in the first years of the Thirties. Since then the depreciation of its capital holdings and a steadily falling interest rate have curtailed its income seriously, as it has that of all investors; its primary concern has become conservation...