Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reorganization, The next manifestation of Albany control over Washington occurred when South Carolina's Senator Byrnes announced that, at Governor Roosevelt's specific request, blanket authority would be given the next President to reorganize and abolish multifarious executive agencies to save money, balance the Budget. Not since War days had it been proposed to give the White House such extraordinary power. How he would use it Mr. Roosevelt would decide after he had mastered the detailed set-up of the Federal Government later this month at Warm Springs. Already his agents were reported scurrying through the executive departments...
Normally this clause, which figures in numberless trade treaties, has been a blanket clause. When states A and B signed a most-favored-nation treaty each pledged that it would grant to the other all trade favors (such as lower tariff rates) which it might grant to any third state. Last week France and Germany agreed that such treatment shall no longer apply to all but hereafter only to specified items of trade. Clearly this opens the way to unlimited trade haggling between states. It was said in Berlin last week that France urged and won the new interpretation...
...dead by sitting shivah-in stocking feet, on rough boxes instead of chairs-during the first seven days. For eleven months after the death there is daily Kaddish, a prayer in the synagog, usually led by a son or daughter of the deceased. Some rabbis chant a routine, blanket Kaddish at the end of services, for all the congregation's dead. After eleven months the deceased is presumed to be redeemed by these prayers, to pass on from Gehenna (Hell) to Heaven. On the twelvemonth, and on successive anniversaries, prayers are again offered, and Yahrzeit lamps or candles burned...
...common knowledge that the Athletic Association suffered a considerable loss in income during the past football season, and the proposal of such a fixed fee will be seen by many as an attempt to force the students to make up the deficit. However, if, for example, a $15 blanket fee were levied on all undergraduates, adding in the neighborhood of $10,000 to the H.A.A. coffers, it would not only have precedent but also weighty arguments in its favor...
Yale and Princeton require all their undergraduates to pay $20, directly or indirectly, for the use of athletic facilities, while Harvard, on the other hand, has always charged only those men who use its facilities. A blanket fee at Harvard, which would incidentally get rid of some of the present red tape, would induce many of the men, who do not now exercise, to utilize the recreational opportunities which they have hitherto for one or another reason chosen to ignore or avoid. In particular a number of the Freshmen, who, after taking their year of free compulsory exercise, balk...