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Harvard will uphold the affirmative in a radio debate tomorrow with Middlebury College on the question "Resolved: that the extension of consumers' cooperatives would contribute to the public welfare." The debate will be broadcast over WAAB at 1:30 o'clock...
Euno R. Hobbing, and Julian S. Hess will uphold the affirmative side of the question, while the opposite point of view will be maintained by Paul W. Cherington, and David F. Aberle. The main speeches will be of eight and ten minute duration, while five minutes will be allotted each side for the purpose of refutation...
...team that is to uphold the affirmative at Harvard and suggest reasons for Landon's election will be Richard W. Sullivan '38, of Caribou, Maine; Donald McDonald '39 of Omaha, Nebraska; and Robert W. Bean '39, of Council Bluffs, Iowa...
Sullivan will support Roosevelt as a representative of the needed Liberalism in Government, and McDonald will uphold the financial policy of the administration, and will attempt to show that something worth while has been achieved by increasing the deficit...
...conclusion that they could make political capital out of an overt and noisy appearance of supporting the Spanish Cabinet, just as Madrid was in mortal danger of falling to the Whites (see p. 34). Should it fall without either Stanley Baldwin or Joseph Stalin having done anything to uphold Spanish Democracy or Spanish Bolshevism-these being matters of the point of view-what was Mr. Baldwin to say afterward to British devotees of Democracy, and what was Comrade Stalin to say to Russian enthusiasts for Bolshevism? In this doubly paradoxical dilemma a suave British finesse and a crude Russian demarche...