Word: allotment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury last week took action on at least part of its problem: offered for sale $500,000,000 of 2⅞% three-year Treasury notes. To encourage small investors the bonds were offered in denominations as low as $100, and the Treasury declared its intention of trying to allot in full all subscriptions up to $10,000. Within a few hours banks announced a heavy subscription. Success of this issue will make it easy for the Treasury to pay off its short term notes now maturing nearly every month, presages further "popular" offerings to solve refunding problems...
...excellence of each college which determines the rigidity of that graduating standard. To maintain it many men are deprived of the pleasure of working at a college level during their freshman year, to achieve the first steps of Parnassus which their preparatory schools ignored. Present educational conferences regularly allot one day to discussing the problem, and their conclusions are never sanguine. Any lowering of the barriers to admit men, however attractive and promising personally, who must be laboriously assisted through their freshman courses, could not be considered an educational reform...
...what was wrong with the U. S. First Great Name to open last week's hearing was Bernard Mannes Baruch. His advice: "Balance the Budget. Tax everybody for everything. Take hungry men off the world's pavements." He proposed the following farm relief plan: Let the Government allot production quotas on corn, cotton, wheat and tobacco and then lease the farm land thus left idle at an average of $3 per acre per year, thereby compensating the producer for accepting his quota; let the Government collect a processing tax not upon individual products but upon all agricultural commodities...
Whatever position posterity or his peers may allot him it will certainly be superior to that of Beverly Nichols (who wrote his autobiography at 25). An increasing body of readers have already found him a Most Amusing, if not Most Important, author...
...General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. (South) at Montreat, N. C., last week made no such ado about Birth Control and the Council. Forthright conservatives who know their own minds, they simply denounced Birth Control, refused to allot their annual scot of $750 to the Federal Council, and voted complete severance from that interdenominational organization, although expressing for it unanimous "fraternal love...