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Assembled in Basle last week for the monthly board meeting of the Bank for International Settlements ("The World Bank"), bankers of Europe spent a large part of their expensive time sputtering about those incomprehensible Americans. It seemed that in trying to uphold its leg of the three-way gold accord with Britain and France, the U. S. was making the game of international finance entirely too complicated. One banker, related the New York Times, told a story about the governor of a small European central bank "who had come to the World Bank in despair, declaring the American instructions regarding...
Harvard will uphold the affirmative side of the proposition: "Resolved, That the federal government should be empowered to regulate maximum hours and minimum wages in industry...
Byrno and Sullivan will uphold the affirmative side of the proposition, "Resolved. That the federal government should be empowered to regulate maximum hours and minimum wages in industry...
...participating groups are the finalists in the series of arguments that are held among various law clubs. William P. Fuller 3L and Gerald 3L, Traufman 3L, both of the Root Pitney Club, will uphold the taxpayers' side, while Dwight K. Parsons 3L and Andrew S. Grey 3L, representatives of the Pow-Wow Club, will argue the validity...
...John Graham of Claverhouse, but the muttering Scottish Covenanters pronounced it "Bluidy Clavers." A gentleman, a hard-bitten soldier, Clavers had come back to Scotland from the Low Countries to see his dying mother, and at her behest stayed on to serve Charles II. His inglorious job was to uphold the unpopular Established Church, put down the dissenting Covenanters with a heavy hand. A misogynist, Clavers was faithful only to his duty. Nearly everyone hated...