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Other changes included a shift of the independent Alien Property Custodian to the Department of Justice, Agriculture's Weather Bureau to the Commerce Department, and Labor's immigration border patrol to the Treasury's Coast Guard...
...view of the changes that have been made in the College and the consequent shift of emphasis to the final honors which a man attains, the undergraduate members of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa make the following recommendations as regards the election of members...
...Governor Roosevelt and President Hoover parted company over the method of dealing with debtors. Where President Hoover wanted to shift the question to another commission, the President-elect held with Congress that ''the most convenient and effective contacts can be made through the existing agencies and constituted channels of diplomatic intercourse. ... No action by Congress has limited or can limit the Constitutional power of the President to carry on diplomatic contacts and conversation." U. S. Constitutionalists hailed this Roosevelt stand as an important reversion to the historic U. S. method of dealing with foreign governments...
...private mail, private business, private house in Manhattan. During the pre-convention campaign he was the "inside man," while Jim Farley was working in the spotlight. It was straight to Col. Howe the McAdoo men went at the Chicago convention when they were ready to dicker on a shift from Garner to Roosevelt...
...Bierman legend: he has never shed a tear, shouted, raged or dropped a player from his squad. During the half, he reads to his squad from a small sheet of paper on which he has noted their mistakes. He played at Minnesota in 1916; he uses the Minnesota shift, invented by Dr. Henry Williams, with guards moving in an unbalanced line. His salary is now $7,500. His record, in four years at Tulane: won 35, lost 9. tied...