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...Friday and Saturday, a team composed of Howard M. Lawn '34 and Clement L. Harriss '34 will debate Dalhousie University at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Mt. Allison College at Sackville, New Brunswick, on the subject, "Resolved, That Hitlerism is a benefit to the German people." They will uphold the affirmative stand...
...team composed of Roy M. Cohen '36, Powers McLean '35, Morris Pfaezer H. '35, and Stanley H. Ginsberg '36, alternate will debate with Providence College at Providence on March 1. The Harvard team will uphold the negative side of the proposition: Resolved: That the principles of the NRA should become permanent features of United States Government policy...
...March 12, the Debating Council will entertain a team from William and Mary. The Harvard team, which is composed of George R. Farnham '36, Hyman Goldenstein '36, Melvin Levy '36, and Sidney S. S. Alexander '36, alternate, will uphold the affirmative side of the question: Resolved: That the disadvantages of the NRA outweigh its advantages...
...host of vital questions are opened up the moment an "emergency" is justification for the law of a state permitting contracts to be abrogated. As a matter of fact, it would seem probable that the Supreme Court of the United States will uphold the action of the executive branch of the government and the legislative in repudiating the famous gold clause in government securities. The highest court in Great Britain recently refused to permit an "emergency" to be offered as a reason for falling to pay gold contracts in full
...Williams to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The Business School, by way of the Bank of England, proffered and then received back the stormy petrel of inflation, Oliver M. W. Sprague. It remained for the Law School, where liberalism burns with a less frozen flame, to uphold the University's reputation on capitol hill and to beat its rival Law Schools hands down in point of influence on the Administration. Thanks to Professors Landis, Sayre, and most of all to the resourceful Felix Frankfurter, Harvard apparently has at least the legal destines of the New Deal well...