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...strong that the U. S. State Department grew worried. Half a dozen other speakers at the National Foreign Trade Council convention in Manhattan last week sided with him. From his bountiful cornucopia of good cheer Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, poured reassuring Tariff figures with which to uphold the Hoover Administration. When the Council adjourned and drew up its annual, lengthy, vague resolution, the fighting word "tariff" did not appear...
...difficulties in maintaining his wage scale while commodity prices were falling. Outside the White House they repeated their laments in the hearings of newshawks. Last week in so reliable a Republican print as the New York Herald Tribune President Hoover was depicted as waging a stiff backstage "struggle" to uphold his pay policy "in the face of a strong movement in financial circles" to cut wages. His visitors came away with the impression that the President thought that if wages could be maintained for another 60 days, a business turn for the better would then come...
...That the present plans of Harvard College for a Memorial Chapel be executed." The negative side is to be taken by G. F. Oest '33, A. F. Phillips '34, and Oscar Sutermeister '32, while D. B. Dorman '32, J. S. Frame '33, and J. M. Lichliter '33 are to uphold the affirmative...
...State legislatures (TIME, Dec. 29). Last week it was the Drys' turn for jubilance. Acting for the U. S. Supreme Court, speaking before a courtroom crowded but orderly, tall, bespectacled Associate Justice Owen Josephus Roberts reversed the decision of Judge Clark. The decision of the Supreme Court to uphold the 18th Amendment was unanimous.* It observed that Judge Clark based his conclusions on two articles of the Constitution: 1) Article V, which provides that amendments, to be valid, must be ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the States or by conventions in three-fourths of the States...
...That the United States should adhere to the World Court under the Root protocol," will be taken by Harvard. The Crimson speakers will be P. H. Cohen '32, D. M. Sullivan '33, and P. S. Reardon '32, while J. F. Rogers, J. J. Wright, and E. F. Connelly will uphold the negative side for Boston College...