Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief feature of the Senate bill was that it reduced the undistributed profits tax to a size where it would not greatly harm corporations which needed to lay by reserves out of profits, would not unduly discourage the creation of surpluses as cushions against depression...
...that the Blum Cabinet intends to keep them in session until they have enacted: 1) Nationalization of French war industries; 2) the 40-hour week for all French workers; 3) the right of Collective Contract for workers bargaining with their employers; 4) compulsory annual vacations with full pay; 5) creation of employment by nationwide public works; 6) extension of the French compulsory public school system; 7) creation of state boards to increase French agricultural prices, starting with wheat; 8) repeal of numerous decree laws displeasing to the Socialists and Communists which were enacted under former Premier Pierre Laval (TIME...
...smothering of city planning is going on rapidly in the country, Washington is doing its full share in spreading the word planning over all creation. What a fine thing it would be to continue the upbuilding of community planning at Harvard. Mr. Hubbard is grand. He is broader than I am. That is no hurt for the head of a college department. Yours very truly, E. M. Bassett
...sweeping declaration of M. Blum that he will enact laws providing for, among other matters, a forty-hour week, collective labor agreements, paid holidays for workers, political amnesty, a public works program, nationalization of war industries, extension of compulsory education, reform of the Bank of France creation of a wheat board, etc., is one calculated to cause consternation in the hearts of most spectators. Not that most of these measures do not call for careful scrutiny and a few for action as soon as possible. It is rather fear engendered by thoughts as to how carefully and effectively the measures...
Britain's Will H. Hays is a distinguished old peer named William George Tyrrell. Like his U. S. counterpart, Baron Tyrrell of Avon, onetime British Ambassador to France, has no governmental standing but, as salaried ($10,000) president of the Board of Film Censors, a creation of the British film industry, he takes public responsibility for that organization's acts. Actual work he leaves mostly to a professional Cato, one J. Brooke Wilkinson, who works on the principle that any footage controversial enough to ruffle the customary calm of a cinema audience should be deleted...