Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...state the matter baldly and frankly . . . litigation over questions of valuation, accounting and administration will arise in cases where the basic issue is whether or not, or to what extent, money shall be taken from carriers by the Government. . . . The result will be to establish in the course of this litigation certain principles, relative to valuation and the like which will have an unfavorable reaction on many broader phases of public regulation...
...Institute. The book is a thoroughgoing survey of church federations of 24 cities and two States. The federations had asked the Institute to inspect their condition. Dr. Douglass found their condition unsatisfactory. After more than 20 years activities there is a "general avoidance of any attempt to find a basic philosophical and religious ground-work" for the federation movement. As a rule worshippers are more willing than ministers to cooperate in federations. The clergy "are afraid of the warm-hearted irresponsibility of their lay constituents-perhaps also of their own better natures." It was to ferret out the cause...
...these schools, but if the advice of Charles A. Dana is followed--and it is the soundest advice--the courses called "supplementary" which it is suggested would prepare the reporter for better service--in history, economics, government, politics, sociology, literature, natural science and psychology and philosophy--should be the basic disciplines...
...separate issue officially came to a close last spring when the University authorities announced a thorough investigation of the whole employment problem. Until some report of this survey is made public, it is unlikely that any further publicity about the scrubwomen can contribute towards the solution of the basic issue involved...
...referred is Edward C. Finney, now the Department's solicitor, formerly (1921-29) Assistant Secretary, the man who saw nothing wrong when the Elk Hills and Teapot Dome scandals were in the making, the man most directly attacked by the Kelley charges. In 1928, Mr. Finney wrote the basic decision which Kelley protested as nullifying the "discovery" provision of the old mining laws and thereby validating countless paper claims of oil companies to shale lands. Mr. Finney was accused of brushing aside as "very embarrassing" certain geological evidence brought him by Chief Kelley which would have upset his ruling...