Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basic problem today is unemployment. Roosevelt, in office for more than a year and a half, has failed as yet to bring substantial relief to those out of work. Disregarding Utopian ideas of perpetual government support of the unemployed, it is safe to say that private corporations must take up the large number of men now idle. The government can't do it all forever. Under the capitalistic system companies refuse to hire men unless they see the possibility of making a profit. Yet to date, the administration has deprecated the profit motive as a guide to business activity...
...laws affecting the industry of the country have never seen the floor of a legislative assembly, but have been enacted by political appointees responsible only to the executive. In the AAA Congress supinely turned over to officers appointed by the president the right to impose processing taxes on the basic agricultural products...
...obscure failure. Congress has passed laws and the Treasury has passed out millions but the heavy industries have continued to lag and the jobless have waited in vain for the "Roosevelt Building Boom." It is not the habit of the Administration to acknowledge a violent shift in basic policy but last week certain things were said and done in Washington which made it quite plain that the Government's housing program was about to make a 180° turn...
With the house libraries now an integral part of the educational system at Harvard and the basic stock of volumes laid in it is time to consider what new additions will add most to the libraries' usefulness. At present one of the chief faults is the relative lack of book used for outside reading in the more popular courses like Economics A, Fine Arts 1b and Government...
...Basic revision of NRA codes to remove restrictions on production, a recommendation of the Darrow Board, will be placed before President Roosevelt for approval soon, it was learned tonight...