Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...denies this or, I believe, disputes the moral right of the small bondholder to rely on an instrument of the U. S. Government, but in the political mélée that has followed, the rights of the bondholders are entirely ignored. If the leases in question were fraudulent, then certainly the parties both in and out of the Government should be held responsible, but bondholders who bought bonds secured by such instruments should be protected. Bondholders feel that it is just as if the U. S. Government had said to them "we cannot pay the Liberty Bonds because...
Particularly provoked was Texas' Senator Morris Sheppard, author of the "police regulation" in question. North Carolina's Senator Simmons, disgruntled at the rejection of his state's man, remarked bitterly: "A southern Dry has been rejected; a northern man numbered among the outstanding opponents of Prohibition now takes his place...
Society gave the Pops their start but the public seized upon them, gave them their real prosperity. With Prohibition came the question of whether they could survive, but a single Dry season showed they could. The music had become the thing, not the beer or the brightened punches. Under Conductor Agide Jacchia (1917-27) the concerts flourished as never before. Conductor Casella, who followed him, tried to dignify the programs but the people rebelled. As it did a half-century ago, Spring seems the time for occasional waltzes and mazurkas...
...article of Dr. Snedden appearing in today's CRIMSON on the question of college entrance brings out a new element of this problem in advocating that the secondary school should confine its efforts to providing an education that does not need to be supplemented by four years at college. According to this belief, it is not for the preparatory school to attempt to meet the requirements of the college, but, to the contrary, it is the duty of the college to fashion its methods after the dictates of the secondary school...
...same time in the New Lecture Hall here, a second group of Harvard speakers upheld the affirmative side of the question against the freshman debaters from Yale. The debate was attended by not more than 25 persons, the large majority of whom were freshmen, who gave the victory to the New Haven delegation, basing their decision on the merits of the question, and not on the merits of the speaking...