Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some observers, however, believed that the President genuinely meant to econo mize, was attempting it by a piece of characteristic Rooseveltian strategy. If he had cut his Relief figure below $1,500,000,000, Congressional spenders would have gobbled up the difference for pet projects not under direct White House control. Therefore, instead of making a forthright effort to balance the Budget by reduced appropriation or increased taxes, the President was deliberately setting up a deficit in order to scare Congressmen out of further spending. When Congress had adjourned he could set about economy by spending less than...
...been invoked by the defense as justification for what has been done. Instead, in my opinion, what has been done is a direct violation...
...took a long swim in Lake Michigan before going to afternoon classes. As an infantry officer he saw action in the Spanish and World Wars. Last week the trustees of the Rosenwald Museum asked the Planetarium's Dr. Fox to double his duties and direct the Museum as well. He accepted the new post, vacant since Otto Theo Kreusser resigned last year...
Taking up the topic of social security legislation in France, W. A. Sollohub draws together with the differences "striking parallels" between the Frank and American law making. Estimates of the costs of the French system have a direct bearing upon the scale of taxes now in force in this country to meet the expenditures undertaken...
...gist of both readings is that any scholarship man who violates the ruling will be deprived of his honor or stipend, as the case may be. The important changes are these: the peddling of notes has been prohibited for the whole year round, instead of just before examinations; direct mention has been made of the tutoring schools, to make it clear just what sort of traffic is aimed...