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...first meeting of the Crimson squad will be held tonight at the Harvard Union at 7 o'clock. Following this meeting tryouts will be held during the next two weeks, as a result of which the six men who are to uphold Harvard's burden of argument will be chosen. The Coolidge Prize of $100 will be awarded to the man doing the best work-in these tryouts, and the Coolidge gold medals will be awarded to each man making the team. The men who are successful will also automatically become members of Delta Sigma Phi, the debating fraternity...
Many a U. S. voter has been held in line for Prohibition by the argument that Big Business supported it. In the 1928 campaign, Nominee Hoover got five tycoons to uphold his Dry stand to every one Nominee Smith got to flay the 18th Amendment. As long as tycoons pontificated in favor of Prohibition, smaller men chimed in with their approval...
While sanctioning the merger of these two great transcontinentals into a 15,386 mile system, the Interstate Commerce Commission exhibited a determination to uphold its general consolidation plan (TIME, Dec. 30). Three years ago was formed the Great Northern Pacific Co. to take over the G. N. and the N. P. In its Interstate Commerce Commission application the G. N. P. Co. naturally included in the merger the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, jointly owned by the G. N. and the N. P., serving them as their great high way into Chicago. The Interstate Commerce Commission's general consolidation plan called...
...course, the British Debating Team who are to uphold the affirmative. T. L. Jarman, Davison scholar from New College, Oxford, K. G. F. Balfour '32, formerly of Eton College, and Miss E. Mandelbaum, Radcliffe '32, are those who will deseant on this side Opposing them in deflance. Mrs. E. Linden, Radcliffe '30, Miss Lingerfelter. Radcliffe '31, and C. W. Lightbody 1G of Toronto University and Worcester College, Oxford, will take the floor. Professor Garrod of Merton College, Oxford, has kindly consented to preside. As the debate is open to the public and the motion is to be thrown open...
...Governor of Pennsylvania does is that he reminds me of an antimire* talking to a lot of jumbo elephants. . . . Somebody harbors a fear of a man named Grundy. Some of the criticisms have sounded like the malicious gossip of women. . . . So long as I am governor I intend to uphold our state and I would fail in my duty if I let the threat of any Senator dictate the selection...