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...matches of interest, since Ingraham, Guild, Pfaffman, Briggs, and Bondi ran off their contests with ease, although Dixon had to weather an extraordinarily large percentage of deuce games before he could down Storb 6-2, 7-5. In the number two doubles encounter, Miller's speed proved rather a problem for Guild and Pfaffman. Yet although they dropped the first set 5-7, they solved the riddle, and were able to walk away with the next...
...Harding, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, "the Federal Reserve Board will probably have announced its decision concerning the proposed branch of the Boston Bank in Havana, Cuba. The question which it must decide involves both the rivalry between the Federal Reserve Banks and the problem of whether or not Federal Reserve Banks should be permitted to compete actively with commercial banks...
...private initiative, and warned his hearers against the extension of governmental control over business. Mr. Hoover had no fears that, owing to our huge stock of gold, the current trade boom would end in inflation. He did, however, urge that coal be stored now to lighten the transportation problem next fall and winter...
...true, as the report states, that "no plan of distribution can satisfactorily solve the seating problem", since there simply are not enough tickets to go round. The Committee's task, then, is more psychological than mathematical; the best it can do is to convince everyone that he is getting a "square deal." In past years the chief complaint has come down from those who were allowed to believe that they would get two or more tickets, and found at the last minute that they were left with only one. The new plan does not eliminate that fault. Those who apply...
...significant section the committee declares that the chief problem in athletics "is one of relative values; and it must be met, in our opinion, by following the principle that athletics is an element in the education of the individual to be given its due place but no more than that." The committee also comments favorably on the various agreements eliminating "everything that tends in the direction of professionalism," and praises the high standard of sportsmanship in modern athletics at Harvard...