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Harvard organizations swung into action on two fronts yesterday as the National Student League moved to uphold the Uneeda Biscuit workers' strike in New York and the Liberal Club sought to prevent the passage in the State Legislature of an anti-Communist bill...
Victor H. Kramer '35, president of the club, declared that "We oppose this bill because it denies those principles of free speech which our democratic form of government is dedicated to uphold, and because the experience of foreign countries has shown that such an act would do much to aid the Communist cause, which cause we oppose so heartily...
Brown and Young, both of last year's Freshman squad, will uphold the Crimson honors in the 35-pound weight throw, but there has been no chance as yet to test their potentialities. Millard, Schumann, and Johnson are entered in the shot-put; all have had Varsity experience, and it is expected that Millard will place well in the meet...
...uphold Harvard's affirmative in the proposal: "Resolved, That the several states should pass legislation for the Socialization of Medicine," Harold W. Danser '37 and James J. Fuld '37 have prepared ten and 12-minute speeches respectively...
Such was Wall Street's jittery reaction one day last week to the possibility that the U. S. Supreme Court would uphold the sanctity of gold clause contracts and restore billions of dollars of public and private obligations which Congress had said were not to be paid in gold or its equivalent (TIME, Jan. 21). Domestic markets slumped ominously. Led by Homestake Mining (gold), which dropped $30 per share to $340, the stockmarket sold down steeply. Wheat touched the lowest level in nearly three months (95? per bu.) and cotton sloughed off $1 per bale...