Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...metropolitan government. It provides for the appointment by the Council of a paid administrator; he runs the city, prepares the budget, appoints subordinates according to civil service laws, while the mayor loses his powers of appointment and veto. The Council, reduced to nine members, performs the function of a board of directors, since it can remove the manager after a hearing. More important for the voters is that the Councilmen are elected at large by proportional representation, which eliminates the primary and reflects, in Dean Landis's words, "as accurately as human ingenuity can devise, the complexion of your electorate...
...will be revised, but there will be a big fight over the Wagner Act in the coming Congressional session," Sweezy predicted. Although the A. F. of L. will fight for removal of the power to determine the collective bargaining unit from the hands of the Labor Relations Board, the economics instructor said, "In all cases I have studied, the Board picked the bargaining unit with the utmost fairness, showing no favoritism...
...CRIMSON editorial board will hold its last competition for Juniors beginning Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock...
...administrative board consists of five Seniors and two directors from the second-year class. Members of the bureau, established as a corporation, lend three hours of their time each week to destitute clients who are asked to pay only a voluntary 25 cent registration...
These recognized depression phenomena have already given rise to one New Deal theory, that "Saving makes a rainy day" (because savings are translated into loans to industry, increasing fixed charges). This theory, of which the leading exponent is David Cushman Coyle (a consulting engineer of the National Resources Board), arrives at the inevitable conclusion that the way to prevent depressions is to reduce savings by heavy taxation on the people who save, i.e., the well-to-do. The New Deal is already putting it in practice...