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...connection, we understand that action is to be promoted in Congress to override the opinion of the Attorney General in connection with the Morrell Act, and grant to the colleges having obligatory training the financial benefits which were contemplated by the authors of that law. This is a wise move and should be crowned with success. Army and Navy Journal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: They're in the Army Now | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...qualifying statement that Germany will advance toward her aims ''solely along the path of Peace." Momentarily Herr Bruning had stolen Fascist thunder. Masterfully he pressed his advantage, maneuvered for a quick vote of confidence on a motion to adjourn the Reichstag for six weeks. Such a move would have been madness earlier in the week. But today was today. By a vote of 323 to 236 the Reichstag rejected Communist and Fascist motions censuring the Government. Next by a vote of 325 to 237 Herr Brüning was given a free hand with his budget-balancing program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Br | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

...argue that undergraduate editors are never guilty of poor taste is nonsense. But to set up a machinery of censorship to watch over "immature" journalists would be equally silly. Censorship would hardly move college journalists into the select circles of maturity anyhow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/24/1930 | See Source »

...said: "It is impossible for any individual or group of individuals to buy or sell securities in sufficient volume to affect the whole list." Brokers saw that the Exchange's attitude was against the bear who uses unethical means (such as rumormongering) to depress prices, was perhaps essentially a move to forestall investigation by Congress. Agitation of this sort was commencing last week. Congressman William I. Sirovich of New York notified the Exchange that if conditions were not remedied he would ask President Hoover to act. Quite to the contrary, shrewd observers noted as a happy sign that many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Shadow of Panic | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...Plan, according to its prime mover, was calculated to eliminate cabals brought together by "wealth and origin.".... In spite of the fact that it is contrary to the spirit of the new system, Juniors Barry Wood and Charles Cunningham, room-mates, footballers, hockeyists, demanded that they be allowed to move into Lowell House with 25 of their cronies, a two-year-old clique. This the authorities reluctantly permitted. Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Cross Section | 10/20/1930 | See Source »