Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Council appreciates that activities should be important criteria for admission; it only attempts to avoid too definite, impractical rules...
Germany, Italy and Japan have found a way to stop this drain. But they did so by violating capitalism's unwritten Magna Charta: That money must have a right to go wherever it can make profits and avoid losses. In Britain, this right has now been suspended by Sir John Simon's dictum: "The export of capital . . . would be deleterious to the national interest...
...Moines (to postmasters): "Everything we do should be calculated to assist and encourage private enterprise." Crossing Missouri, Jim Farley listened closely to what people had to say about Democrat Lloyd C. Stark, fair-haired reform Governor. He was careful to avoid Boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City, upon whom Governor Stark sicked Attorney-General Murphy and got him indicted (TIME, April 17). In Kansas, which went Republican last year, Jim Farley got right down to the grassroots, motored from Salina to Topeka with stops at a dozen towns. Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona were on his course, then California, where...
...Prudden's cases seem to be based on careless misapprehensions, and he appears to have coupled a decided lack of knowledge about the present situation with distastefully personal accusations. The petition appears to avoid clearly any expression of private "gripes." We believe the committee would be glad to cite numerous examples of over-sights in the recent House assignments besides the two cases they chose as samples. Mr. Prudden has rushed to groundless conclusions; we wish he had offered a little constructive instead of destructive criticism. Vern K. Miller '42. Dave Stearns...
Professor Hansen claimed that an outlet must be found for the nation's savings in expansion add new construction to avoid chronic unemployment...