Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the Trustees of Warm Springs Foundation in the East Room of the White House, Rear Admiral Gary T. Grayson presented the President with a check 3 ft. long by 18 in. wide, for $1,003,030.08 - receipts for the President's "birthday balls" last January. The amount was half a million dollars smaller than Warm Springs had confidently hoped for but the President waved the check triumphantly aloft, before handing it to Trustee Arthur Carpenter. "Just for five or ten seconds, Carp," said the President, "I wouldn't trust you longer with it. No danger was there...
Samuel Harden Church, president of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute: In seeking to justify his assault upon Mr. Mellon's character Attorney General Cummings made the announcement that it is his policy to present to each citizen the Government's tax claim, and if the full amount of that claim is not paid without any further discussion of the matter a criminal indictment will be demanded. The cool, calculating villainy of this statement has shocked America...
Trade War. Aiming at Japan, Mr. Runciman announced last week that imports of foreign textile goods to Britain's Crown colonies would be limited henceforth to the average amount imported irom each country during the years 1927-31. While statisticians with slide rule and pencil last week figured out these quota restrictions, it was a fact that exports of Japanese cotton goods to all countries rose from 1,413,480.000 sq. yd. in 1927 to 2.090,228,000 sq. yd. in 1933 and surpassed the total British exports of cotton goods for the first time in history. Though tariffs...
...impossible, collective control must be substituted. Compensation is necessary and it can be shown that only compensatory measures had a powerful effect in overcoming the depression of 1929. We have tried regimentation with such measures but out A.A.A. and N.R.A. have failed to produce results commensurate with the amount of labor expended. We are no farther along the road of recovery than are the British countries which failed to use them...
President Conant in another portion of his speech condemned the practice of working one's way through college as a "social waste." If one considers education from the purely intellectual standpoint, we agree with the President, but if one considers a certain amount of sacrifice and struggle necessary or beneficial as training for life after graduation, working one's way through college is not a "social waste." Furthermore, although financial independence is a primary requisite for the brilliant and creative scholar, nevertheless, to those who want only the general cultural value of a college education, our present system of self...