Word: aims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...according to the announcement, to give university men a factual knowledge of a problem which "will remain to torment the nation for years to come," and also to supplement this theoretical information by contact with "older men who know the problem from direct experience." The discussions "have a singlehearted aim: to analyze all major policies and see what each entails...
Such a reorganization requires the development of the junior colleges which are at present "ambiguous in aim and unsatisfactory in organization." All they accomplish now is to "keep young people from doing things that would be worse for them." However "housing is not an educational ideal...
...most important single influence on French policy has been the rise of Hitler, McKay said. To isolate this nation and render it politically incapable of effective resistance is the chief aim of the Nazi state today, for having long since ceased to press for colonies, it plans to extend its influence towards the East...
...Aim of the U. S. bargainers will be to reverse the trend which carried U. S. exports to Great Britain from $848,000,000 in 1929 to $440,122,000 last year...
Wheat and corn acreage and marketing quotas would be based on the aim of giving a bushel of either the same purchasing power it had between 1909 and 1914. The Government would impose on every bushel sold over Department of Agriculture marketing quotas a penalty tax of 50% of its price-provided that, in a referendum before the scheme goes into effect, two-thirds of the farmers affected approve the plan. Secretary Wallace's ever-normal granary would apply to both crops: the Government would begin to buy wheat for use in periods of scarcity when the supply...