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...recent repeal of prohibition in Tigertown and the institution of unlimited cuts at Yale is one wave of the future which it is to be hoped will roll through Harvard and sweep away the antiquated House parietal restrictions. Symptomatic of a tendency to treat undergraduates more like adult citizens, the move also has the virtue of abolishing an impossible situation at least in the case of the liquor ban, which was unenforceable and universally winked at. The parallel with Harvard's chaperone and permission requirements for women guests is obvious...
...also bring it is difficulties. Such an increase in government expenditures would multiply the money supply, raise prices, and bring on inflation. Mr. Scherman, who makes no bones about distrusting our "entrenched bad government," thinks that the only protection for the common man against these dire consequences is to repeal the Gold Prohibition Act. Then, whenever F. D. R. decides to make another paper profit, the common man can demand gold for his paper currently and reduce the gold hoard so much that the profit won't even exist on paper...
...Tariff Repeal...
...around the bush, the board asked Congress to take back the power to devalue the dollar that it had given to Franklin Roosevelt, to scrap the Administration's authority (never used) to issue $3,000,000,000 worth of new currency backed by nothing but Government credit, to repeal the Treasury's right to issue $1.29 worth of silver coins for each ounce of foreign silver it buys (current price: 35? an ounce). The board argued that these three measures, adopted during Depression I to combat deflation, are no longer needed. What is needed, thanks to the huge...
...convened in Madison, Wis., got a cool welcome. Barred from the University of Wisconsin (of which conscription's Director Clarence Dykstra is president) and the First Congregational Church, the convention eventually met in a hotel, heard an isolationist speech by Senator Burton K. Wheeler, demanded repeal of conscription...