Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to the new Indian Constitution, Viceroy Linlithgow's job is to speed the creation of autonomous Indian Provinces and an autonomous All-India Federal Government. The hitch in this proposed set-up is that at the same time the Viceroy and his provincial Governors have certain "duties"-the duty of protecting minorities including the British, the duty of maintaining order, the duty of ensuring India's financial stability and credit...
...interest. Reason for the free ride was that last summer Congress passed and President Roosevelt signed a bill for the Treasury to pay the transportation back to his native land of any Filipino who would accept. A backer of this law was Pacific Coast Labor, which saw in the creation of the Philippine Commonwealth a good excuse for inviting Filipino workers to go home rather than stay in the U. S. selling their services for 10? an hour in competition with white...
Unwarranted increases in salaries, the utter disregard of personal expense for which the executive department is notorious, are two of the cesspools into which the taxpayers' money drains. Another and more insidious one is the creation by a generous legislature of wildcat administrative boards, for which no other excuse can be found except the legislators wish to help their friends and constituents. Such a typical parasite's paradise is the lately conceived board of regulation for hair-dressers, which starts its career with a request for $18,000 for personal services, and $13-800 for travel--for the thirteen members...
GUINEA PIGS NO MORE - J. B. Mat thews - Covici, Friede ($2). A summary of the case already made by consumer organizations, with arguments for a "use" theory of value and for the creation of a Federal Department of the Consumer...
...Frontiers her principal gesture is to raise one leg, rest it on a fence (see cut p. 53). Her intention is to give the effect of space, of peaceful contemplation. Jumps into the air mean joy, a collapse to the floor implies grief or destruction. In Horizons, her latest creation, her girls have a passage where they place their hands behind their necks, rotate their heads from side to side. They are supposed to be hesitating, wondering whether they should go to the right or the left...