Word: crediteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...figure out a long term anti-drought program. He appointed another committee headed by Secretary Wallace to draw up plans for some form of crop insurance on at least one or two major crops. He wrote to the Senate and House Agriculture Committees urging legislation to provide easy credit to enable tenants to become farm owners. Promptly Secretary of Agriculture Wallace-who has been boosting for a Biblical plan of crop insurance whereby farmers in years of large crops would pay one-third or more of their excess crop as insurance premium and get it back in bad crop years...
...irrational attack, indiscriminately levelled at the witnesses to the crash, the Press, reporters in general, and Ferreira, Goodwin blames newspaper handling of the affair, reconstructs a highly unlikely series of events leading to the crash and is fatuous enough to assume that any proportion of the thinking public will credit his words with truth...
...correspondence is but the center of a vast collection of biographical data; every scrap of print about her that clipping bureaus could furnish--and for a dozen years her name was always copy--is carefully preserved. In view of this profusion, it is to the biographer's credit that his chronicle so seldom degenerates into a calendar...
...self-transformation analagous to that at Harvard under the Lowell, Conant regime. From one viewpoint, the changes at New Haven have been more radical, for Yale has been bogged down in the past by a more powerful pedagogical conservatism than her Cambridge sister. Today Yale has to her credit, among other things, a munificent endowment, fine technical facilities, a House plan comprising fine buildings, weird combination of Gothic and Georgian though they be, an increasing enrollment of celebrated scholars and teachers, as well as a Law School with few peers. Although these improvements do not by any means exhaust...
...usual for $12. This book entitles the owner to the following: admission to all athletic events on Soldiers Field; admission to all events in the Indoor Athletic Building; all issues of the H. A. A. News; admission to certain hockey games played in the Boston Arena and a credit of fifty cents towards the $1.10 ticket for the International Hockey League games in the Garden; and an allowance of $1.65 toward a Yale football ticket...