Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...House Agricultural Committee voted (12-to-6) in favor of $30,000,000 drought loans for feed & seed after squashing a $60,000,000 proposal of Louisiana's Democratic Representative Aswell. His comment: "The crookedest, cheapest political action I've ever had thrust in my face. ... I thought I was dealing with honorable gentlemen." Meanwhile the G.O.P. moved to set up at Des Moines an "agricultural division" of its National Committee to try to win and hold the farm vote...
Supreme Court. In an inconclusive decision in the Chicago telephone rate case which sent that seven-year-old controversy back to a lower Federal court for settlement, corporation lawyers thought they detected a significant inclination on the part of the High Court to widen the regulatory powers of State agencies over local utilities doing an interstate business...
Just before the Senate voted seasoned observers thought that the French Cabinet would win through, for its members were not in fact tarred with the Oustric scandal. However go-getting "Napoleon Tardieu" has long seemed too much of "a young man in a hurry" to many an aged Senator. Wire-pulling forces worked against him. His Cabinet fell by the close vote...
...between drives conducted by the Association, it was thought probable that large quantities of books, clothing, shoes, magazines, etc., are discarded by students, and for this reason it was thought wise to follow the system employed by the Morgan Memorial in placing burlap bags in various dormitory rooms in order that the students might easily be able to donate any offerings to this cause...
This new policy has engendered a radical change of thought from the formerly conservative and aloof attitude of the authorities. There are random indications that they are not fully convinced of the efficacy of its abandonment. The breaking of the release date by a New York newspaper yesterday of the announcement of changes in the football coaching staff for next year will undoubtedly hinder complete acceptance of the fact that the press should not be ignored. There is a certain amount of justice in the criticism that the H. A. A. was withholding legitimate news for no other reason than...