Word: currently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilkins is right indeed. The current (January) Congressional Directory erred in listing Consul Haven. To generous Mr. O'Brien, a refund forthwith...
Statistics. To prove his point that current concentration of economic power is unexampled, the President quoted familiar statistics from reports to the Bureau of Internal Revenue: 1) .1% of U. S. corporations own 52% of all corporate assets, get 50% of all corporate income, less than 5% of U. S. corporations own 87% of the assets and less than 4% of manufacturing corporations get 84% of their net profits; 2) even in 1929 .3% of the population got 78% of the dividends and 3) in 1936, 33% of all inheritances went to 4% of all heirs. Taking this as premise...
...recent Gallup poll on the subject showed that 58% of its respondents considered Depression more accurate than Recession as a description of the current state of U. S. business...
...annual convention last week in Manhattan's lush Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. All conventions make reports, pass resolutions, let off steam in general, and the A.N.P.A. meeting was no exception. Last week's meeting, however, was more hot air than steam, more dull ditchwater than racing current. Principal subject of contemplation was Freedom of the Press...
Harvard has refused to adopt any of the fashions now current at some law schools. Yale takes great pride in disavowing the Harvard method of studying the historical and organic development of legal concepts rather than their "practical" value in modern law offices and courts. Boast is also made by Yale of the value of small classes in which there is close association between teacher and student. But, no matter how attractive on paper, the ultimate value of any scheme must be considered in the light of the ability and personality of the faculty which is to administer...