Word: bogging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shipping policy? Since the golden days of clipper ships the U. S. has never had a consistent shipping policy. Nor was it settled by the Maritime Act of 1936, for, as Mr. Kennedy points out, there are still three alternatives: 1) continuation of the subsidy program, which promises to bog down for lack of private capital, 2) Government ownership and private operation, or 3) straight Government ownership and operation. In other great maritime nations the course for Government domination of shipping is clearly charted. Mr. Kennedy seems to feel without saying so that a merchant marine, being today essentially...
...British and the French Governments who recently asked Premier Paul van Zeeland of friendly Belgium to help them find an international formula to extract Europe from its present economic bog. Van Zeeland began by parleying with President Roosevelt (TIME, June 14). Last week as the Premier busied himself in Brussels, shaping up material he has gathered for presentation to European leaders, the King's letter came, as it was obviously intended to come, as a dramatic stroke to arrest world opinion, help pave the way for action. Next day in London the Laborite Daily Herald enthusiastically told His Majesty...
While investigating the dark bog of protective committees and corporate reorganizations, the Securities & Exchange Commission took a long look at the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, the quasi-public body whose duty it is to salvage something for the luckless owners of foreign dollar bonds. On the whole the Council received a clean bill of health from SEC. But the SECommissioners are perfectionists at heart, and in their report to Congress last May they had several suggestions to make...
...London, Conn., June 15-workouts since the arrival of Tom Bolles four Crimson crews here last Saturday seem to indicate some improvement in the Varsity as a result of recent shifts, although the Jayvees as a whole have shown a tendency to bog down...
...real opportunities of the chair which he occupies, a baby dean's lot, like the policeman's in "The Pirates of Penzance", is not always an happy one. As in minor positions in the Government, the job of administering the daily routine of the college often tends to bog down in bureaucratic entanglements. The power, and sometimes the willingness, is lacking, to cut these knots. There is a strong tendency for a minor dean to indulge in the game of passing the buck, and, instead of dealing evenly and directly with all his students, to shift the onus of making...