Word: curtails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rumors that Yale, unable to balance her current budget, would reduce faculty salaries and drastically curtail personnel have been denied by President Angell. This is good news not only to the Yale faculty, but to the faculties of many other universities, which escaping salary losses thus far, have feared the effect upon their own fortunes of a reduction policy initiated by some of the larger and wealthier institutions...
Depression hit another Pacific Coast orchestra early in the autumn. The Seattle Symphony had to curtail its season by half, as a result received the resignation of Conductor Karl Krueger. William Clark, book-collecting son of the late Senator Clark of Montana, stands by the Los Angeles Philharmonic even in time of trouble, but his job is lessened by the great popularity of Conductor Artur Rodzinsky. The Portland (Ore.) Symphony under Conductor Willem van Hoogstratten ran an aggressive campaign this season, reduced its salaries...
...this generation its degree in Indian nomenclature and the battles of King Philip's War, the Company is only waiting for fresh undergraduates in its highway university. This possibility, and the failure of their companies to follow a worthy example, have lead to attempts in New York State to curtail bill-board advertising through legislation prohibiting advertising in certain places and taxing it heavily in others...
Meanwhile the rumor persisted that the Metropolitan was so hard hit financially that it might have to curtail its present season or disband in the spring. Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, some said, resigned as board chairman this autumn because he was tired of playing patron. But people who believed that knew little of the Metropolitan's workings. Banker Kahn owns from 70 to 80% of the producing company's stock but, contrary to the impression he sometimes gives, he has never "backed" it in the sense that Mr. & Mrs. Harold Fowler McCormick once backed Chicago's Opera or that Louis...
Last week the bluffing Katangans suddenly realized they no longer held the upper hand. An event occurred which led them hurriedly to cable their agreement to curtail to 181,000,000 lb. of copper a year, of which only 115,000,000 or 26% of capacity would be for sale. But their acceptance brought no jubilation in the U. S. The same event which had startled the men from Katanga, took the U. S. industry by surprise and was no conference-table bluff. Copper's famed United Front was broken...