Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went on to explain what he meant by planning-instead of giving direct cash relief to unemployed and stranded populations, set them up in occupations and surroundings where they can support themselves. "The Government is rich enough to accomplish this. We need to make these people self-sustaining. We are not going to take them by force or against their wills out of one community and transplant them to another. By using grey matter-Brain Trust or otherwise-we are going to make these experiments so attractive and successful that more people will apply than can be handled...
...administration has started to accomplish its work and it has done it silently and efficiently. The wheels have begun to turn but the movement is made without wasted commotion. The simple announcement of a list of names follows in a mute procession the other changes that have been brought about within the University since September. It remains to be seen whether or not the steps are in the right direction but the usual rumblings of University machinery have been absent. The shelvings and the appointments have been perpetrated with ruthless composure...
...meet the needs of the future. Some things must be scrapped. The common man must be given an opportunity to lead a happier life. Everyone who desires a job and is competent, must, from sheer justice, be given an opportunity to hold one; the country is duty bound to accomplish this even at the expense of forcing the permanent discontinuation of the huge bonuses paid to industrialists. Any man who can take a million-dollar bonus while others are crying for jobs and for bread must be forced into decent generosity if his conscience does not prick him into...
...fact that the Committee, while planning to be continuously active, is opposed to the use of violence as a means of gaining its ends increases the possibility that it will be able to accomplish some of them. A few clear-sighted young men, basing their efforts and appeal on an intelligent and broad view of political practice can do more than a host of half-backed hysterical talkers haranguing stupid or unconvinced listeners. Students, unencumbered with entangling alliances or permanently formed views, should be well fitted to put their ounce of force behind movements making for better government. Their force...
Under the conditions which have been developing during the past three or four decades, the actual control of the University has passed into the meshes of a complicated bureaucracy; the necessary number of professors and instructors has increased to such a degree that it has become impossible to accomplish anything at meetings of the whole faculty; and the advisory council of the president has been transformed into a group of committees and boards. But with the restoration of his advisory council the president has created a government which is centralized and efficient. The boards and committees remain to perform their...