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Word: abolishing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abolish TIME'S Letters Supplement. . . . (We can't worry over . . . how much worse we would have been if we had not known about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 14, 1934 | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

More reassuring to businessmen was the introduction in the Senate of a series of Administration amendments to take the worst sting out of last year's Securities Act. These amendments would abolish the liabilities of officers and directors for false statements made on information received from, accountants and other experts; would limit the liability of underwriters to their share of issues underwritten; would shorten the period in which suits might be brought; would require proof that misleading statements had actually led to losses by investors; would prevent blackmail and nuisance suits by requiring litigants to post bond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: May 14, 1934 | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

...Vesper Service she warned her listeners against Christianity's competitors, Communism, Fascism and Naziism, which have "chosen the cheap and easy way of great promises for actual life which cannot be fulfilled.'' Most radical Y. W. C. A. change accomplished in Philadelphia was to abolish a requirement that three-quarters of all officers belong to churches eligible for membership in the Federal Council of Churches. Also it was proposed that local Y. W. C. A.'s be released from affirming in their constitutions "the Christian faith in God, the Father; and in Jesus Christ, His only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Y. W. C. A. Biennial | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

Much more difficult is the second problem, making a Harvard education desirable to the outstanding schoolboy. President Conant, in attempting to abolish the supremacy of the "Harvard" type student over the more nationally representative scholar, representative in geography as well as in wealth, has done nothing to remove these antithetical classes. He merely proposes to put those on the bottom onto the top, leaving the lazy-industrious, grinding-brilliant, and privileged-deserving dichotomies intact. There is every reason to believe that far from blending with and stimulating "the 50-percent of the student body . . . called the Harvard community" the stipended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIVIDE ET IMPERA | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

...Camden, N. J., two great strike meetings were held. The 2,900 men who had walked out of New York Shipbuilding Co.'s yards refused to go back unless their employers gave them a 25% raise and a closed shop guarantee. Until Campbell Soup Co. promised to abolish its company union, grant 1929 wage levels (30% to 40% higher than they were getting), 1,000 soupmakers pledged themselves to stay on strike. In Baltimore 2,300 airplane workers threatened to walk out of the Glenn L. Martin plant unless a 25% increase was promptly granted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Strikes | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

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