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Today it is richer and fatter than ever. The speakers program that was almost nonexistent five years ago now brings Congressmen so frequently that one Midwestern representative recently stormed into the Republican National Committee in Washington to charge that only ten YR's came out to hear him at Harvard. HYRC leaders explained there had been a club event the night before the Congressman's visit and another coming up two nights later; they were more surprised by the charges than embarbarrassed...
...gets the impression among Young Republican groups-even, although to a lesser degree, at Harvard that many future politicians are not in them; those who will be party leaders may be biding their time in these early years, studying or working, and plan to skip right over the YR...
This may be a wise route to political success. Young republican internal politics are often more petty and degrading than the senior party's even though the stakes are lower. By avoiding the YR's, one enters politics later with fewer enemies...
...estimated at $600 million. The biggest losses were caused by the interruption of commodity shipments. In New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, as sugar refineries ran out of raw sugar, 1,500 workers faced layoffs; on the East Coast refined sugar prices were about to be raised to a 40-yr. high of $10 per 100 lbs. The United Fruit Co., whose great white fleet is a major prop of more than one Latin American economy, managed to get some of its banana ships unloaded under court order. Even so, bananas began to run short in neighborhood markets, and housewives...
...eluded or defied by the ships of the newly independent American colonies. Southern planters needed slaves to maintain an expanding economy. To meet the demand, Northern shipowners sent ever bigger and faster ships to Africa loaded with New England rum, as well as guns, to exchange for slaves. "Worter yr. Rum as much as possible," one owner counseled his captain, "and sell as much by the short mesuer as you can." In the 1840s, so many Yankee ships from Salem traded on the island of Zanzibar (which specialized not only in slaves but made-to-order eunuchs) that the natives...