Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week when he sent to the Capitol for speedy enactment his bill for refinancing agricultural mortgages. His land-leasing -domestic - allotment-cotton pool measure now in the Senate's hands is designed to raise commodity prices and thus put cash into the farm industry from the bottom by direct subsidies (see p. 18). His mortgage bill is meant to ease the debt load pressing down on the farm from the top. The two pieces of legislation complemented each other in purpose, would probably be fused into one by Congress...
...Passed a House bill providing that, upon examination of assets, nonmember State banks may obtain new currency by direct borrowings from Federal Reserve banks; sent it to the President...
Theoretically, a direct vote for President should be more democratic than an election by Parliament. But politicians in Latin countries know that parliaments are far harder than populaces to handle...
...powerfully concentrated, Pius XI has come out for: minimum wage laws; old-age pensions; private property, even a "modest fortune" for workers; government regulation of business; co-operation between Capital & Labor in some form of local unit resembling the medieval guild. Without anywhere attempting to promote these ideas by direct political action, and without reducing them to concrete proposals, Pius XI has offered them to the world as supreme economic wisdom, divinely inspired and backed by the sublime authority of God's earthly vicar...
...Condor's entire cabin compartment has been sound-proofed with wood and Kapok fibre so that it comes in direct contact at no point with the surrounding fuselage. Windows have been set in rubber, walls and ceiling are upholstered. It was found that arrangement of material in sound insulation is more important than the material itself. The Condor's cabin compartment is vaulted...