Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capital of the corporation which, in turn, would issue up to $2,000,000,000 in bonds. The U. S. would guarantee the 4% interest on these bonds which would be exchanged for 5% home mortgages. Defeated (133-to-77) was a proposal for direct cash loans to home-owners to ease their mortgage troubles. ¶ Adopted (209-10-150) a resolution in- structing the Judiciary Committee to investigate impeachment charges by Virginia's Smith against Federal Judge Lowell of Massachusetts (see p. 14). ¶ Adopted a resolution whereby the New York State Power Authority would get hydro-electric...
...that the measure of a Harvard man's scholastic achievement is taken almost entirely from his ability to sling ink into blue books and which gravy that bread by clinging to the pragmatic belief that the stupidity of examination questions varies little from year to year and always in direct proportion to the ease of marking--these establishments "make the students feel that the important thing in college is to pass examinations regardless of the means...
...Harvard observatory at Oak Ridge is now carrying on a regular program and preparations are being made to mount the sixty inch telescope during the coming summer. Dr. F. L. Whipple is in direct charge of the observatory...
Dean Hanford, in an affidavit given the courts in the Tutoring Bureau case, has set forth the views of University Hall on the use of outlines, abridgements, and all similar intellectual crutches. He points out that the use of summaries is the direct opposite of that which the word "education," in the Lowellian sense, implies. It is added, moreover, that it may become necessary to abolish the reading periods if the work is not done from the assigned books. Delivered of these powerful arguments against the Bureau, Dean Hanford proceeds further to demolish it by remarking that...
Sitting easily at his desk, and between handkerchief dabs at his nose, the President revealed that he had taken the U. S. definitely off the gold standard and headed it in the direction of currency inflation. There was no formal statement and the newshawks, scribbling frantically to catch his husky words, were warned that they could not direct-quote the President. But there was the stark fact: the President was embargoing the export of gold. It meant that the dollar, no longer convertible into gold, would have to shift for itself in foreign exchange and seek its own level downward...