Word: according
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extent escaped the penalties of it. In those states where the cities are small, no pressing problem of unemployment is felt. It would seem natural, therefore, that such states should receive a substantially smaller amount of governmental aid than those more seriously distressed. Natural, but it is hardly in accord with the hallowed traditions of Congress. Those traditions dictate that in regard to appropriations, votes are given only for value received. Senator La Follette has merely recognized the inevitable in drawing up his bill. But the fact that such a condition should be inevitable is a sad comment...
...resolved, that it is the opinion of the members of the Harvard Liberal Club and of the students of Harvard University present at this meeting that the actions of the Japanese forces at Shanghai have not been in accord with the spirit manifested by the nations in the Nine-Power Treaty and in the Kellogg Pact, and furthermore that the members of the Harvard Liberal Club and the students here present favor the use of economic sanctions by the Powers of the World as a protest against these actions and as a guarantee for the future peace and progress...
...with him. Meanwhile in Washington met the American Astronomical Society for its annual interpretation of the heavens. Solar Burst Dr. Ross Gunn of the Naval Research Laboratory offered a hypothesis that the solar system is composed of the self-adhering fragments of a star which exploded of its own accord. The prevailing hypothesis is Dr. Forest Ray Moulton's as modified by Sir James Hopwood Jeans, namely, that a big star once passed near a small star (which men call the Sun), and caused some tidal eruptions, which became planets. Pluto an Accident. It was just a 'lucky...
When lack of consumers' demand in the spring of 1929 made readjustment inevitable, the country's leaders with one accord fought liquidation and put forth all sorts of schemes to prevent it. The credit corporations propose to make frozen assets good by rediscounting credit which never should have been extended in the first place and by waiting for land values to rise. The Administration should realize that farm land may never regain its old value, that assets which are depreciated now may always remain so, and that the position of the price level has little effect upon prosperity...
July: M. Laval signed the Moratorium Accord after negotiations at the French Foreign Office with Statesman Stimson and Secretary Mellon, "to which Briand was brought in like an aged grandmother whom it is desired not to leave out of the family festivities," as venomous "Pertinax" remarked in L'Echo de Paris...