Word: curtail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...budget must necessarily be cut the mistake seems to lie in where the cut is made. It appears to be a rather misconceived program to uphold the salaries of the teaching staff and curtail the services to the students; in as much as the college is primarily operated for the benefit of the students, and that said students are paying practically as much for services now as over before. Winthrop Lewis Plaisted...
...American education faces a crisis. Thirteen thousand localities have been forced to curtail constructive educational activities, shortening the school year or reducing salaries and lowering teaching standards." Therefore, said A. F. of T., let Congress provide aid to States and municipalities through Reconstruction Finance Corp., for educational projects, payment of salaries, feeding of undernourished children...
...methods cannot be doubted. This is particularly true in the South, and Georgia in particular has had a high total of lynchings to her discredit. Federal investigators of conditions have prophesied that increased construction of state highways here, bringing rural communities into closer touch with the judicial machinery, will curtail mob action. Anything destructive of the sentiment which motivates such action must be welcome. Representative Crisp's move, a step in the wrong direction, may be pleasing to his constituents. If he does not share their feeling he is a demagogue; if he does, little can be said...
More fortunate were the producers of copper, far less numerous, of course, than sugar and rubbermen. After almost breaking up, a world conference in New York agreed to curtail production from 26½% of capacity...
...country at large through the first microphones ever installed in the Washington home. ¶Following a ruling by the governing board of the New York Stock Exchange that, after April 1, member firms must not lend securities without written consent of the owners, an action to curtail short selling, President Hoover declared...