Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...government's new plan is to increase the total amount to be given labor. This is to be accomplished by an increase in the pay envelopes all along the line. This means added costs. It also means less profits for stockholders. The latter aspect will not cause much gnashing of teeth or weeping nowadays, for stockholders as a class are supposed to be a relatively small number of persons anyway. They are expected to benefit some day when prosperity comes back...
Just how this can be accomplished without a more drastic control of every aspect of business, especially wage levels, than is in operation today is a mystery. Indeed, the chances are that the planned economy schemes will never work successfully until government control has been extended to include regulation of all phases of competition. The alternative--for the President himself has asked for substitute plans--is being pressed very hard by various economists...
...uphold the negative of the proposition, "Resolved, That the principles of the NRA should be made a permanent part of the American system of government." James J. Fuld '37 and Harold M. Danser '37 make up the Harvard team. Each will speak for twelve minutes, Fuld discussing the governmental aspect of the NRA and Danser the economic side. There will be a six minute rebuttal...
...dialect and temperament of the Southern plantation negroes is everywhere evident, and there is in her manner a great deal of the idyllic charm which distinguishes the dialect stories of Joel Chandler Harris. Happily this book does not attempt an expose of social conditions. Rather it catches an aspect of the American Scene which will not long be with us, and one which literature has seldom illumined with any degree of veracity...
...friends of Edwin L. Godkin, famed editorial writer on the New York Evening Post and founder of the Nation, as a memorial of his long and brilliant service to the country of his adoption. The income from the endowment is devoted to annual lectures on some aspect of the subject: "The Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen...