Word: crediteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legacy from the post-war days, when all of us, from William Roscoe Thayer down, were far more convinced of the efficacy of war as a social instrument than we are now. They have followed the trend of the times; originally a pleasant path to a course credit, they have stiffened their requirements, placed more emphasis on the really scientific features of their field, and are now as difficult as the run of courses in the college. This, coupled with the fact that the treat is on the government, has left the administration strangely blind to their anomalous position...
...R.O.T.C., which is its obvious corollary. Much of the opposition to military and naval science at Harvard has been philosophical; it has been distinguished by its force and sanity, but it obviously cannot be effective. The practical solution lies in barring military and naval science from course credit; if the government insists on them, if there are at Harvard men interested in taking them, the University is not thereby absolved from its duty to the liberal standards of its own degree. How long they would survive if credit were not given for them is a question for the United States...
...AgricuItural Adjustment Administration, Farm Credit Administration, Public Works Administration, Federal Emergency Relief Administration, National Recovery Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps or Commodity Credit Corp., Tennessee Valley Authority, Home Owners' Loan Corp., Reconstruction Finance Corp...
...Statesman Leo XIII: "Every minister of holy religion must throw into the conflict all the energy of his mind and all the strength of his endurance." Last week Father Coughlin also reminded the Press of Pius XI's strictures against "those few who . . . hold and control money ... govern credit . . . grasp, as it were, in their hands the very soul of production so that no one dares breathe against their will...
...limbs of the banking fraternity. And now Roosevelt has advised that revisions be made to alter the psychological impasse thus created by removing much of the stringency attached to the administration of the Act. If this tactical retreat does not achieve the end it seeks--the inducement of more credit into active employment--then the bankers may shiver the more and with better reason, as it is unlikely that Roosevelt will again treat their feelings with such sweet regard...