Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is one field in which direct federal subsidization, but not control, would be welcome, it is education. Up to the present time the government has spent millions on the W.P.A. for different public works as well as for unemployed professionals. It cannot hope to abolish "glaring inequalities" in the fullest sense without establishing a similar administration to take care of the funds now destined for state commissions. For it is absurd to think that appropriations that are granted to Southern states will be used for negro as well as white education. It is absurd to think that politicians...
...Undersigned of the Harvard class of 1941 do hereby request that the Student Council abolish the election of Freshman class officers scheduled to take place in March 1938, and that it empower the present Union Committee to execute those acts formerly the duties of the elected officers...
...adage that anybody will sign any petition is peculiarly well illustrated by the story of the petition to abolish final examinations which was passed around among the seniors at Syracuse a short while ago. Slipped into the middle was a clause which made all signers liable to a five year term on a Georgia labor gang. One hundred and fifteen signed the petition; only three refused...
...report published in the Crimson were misleading, but I understand him to have said that enrollments should be cut because a growing percentage of university graduates are unemployed. I cannot see how that has anything to do with the problem. One might just as well say that we should abolish high schools because so many high school graduates are unemployed...
This advice is, of course, to: 1) lower tariff walls; 2) abolish quota restrictions; 3) stabilize currencies; 4) restore freedom of exchanges; 5) balance budgets. Having dropped in at the White House and made the rounds of Europe, M. van Zeeland picked five nations as the Great Powers most apt to take what he considers the standard brands of good advice...