Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers were reported to the U. S. Labor Department as compared with 26 cuts in the same month last year. March also failed to show any general increase in employment over February though manufacturing industries did hire about 1% more workers. In Manhattan industrialists gathered secretly to discuss the "advisability" of "wage adjustments," departed with the feeling that "moderate reductions" were inevitable. The textile, steel and oil industries braced themselves for further wage retrenchments...
...manage the farmhouse. Tuskegee attempts to better the quality of local livestock: it will swap a pedigreed cow, chicken, hog with a farmer, take in exchange his meaner stock for its larder. Tuskegee sponsors the only clinic in the U. S. where Negro doctors may meet and discuss their special problems; last week 300 Negro physicians & surgeons attended the annual meeting...
...comparing the two. Junior and Senior years are spent in the college proper. This year the board of trustees of Wisconsin voted to discontinue the school for the present freshman class, and its future is undecided. Professor Meiklejohn will probably speak on the work of the experimental school and discuss its success or failure. Other experiments in college education will also be brought up in the lecture...
...Supreme Court last week, attacking the Morgan Loan as "unconstitutional" because it had not been approved by the Spanish Parliament. Spain has had no Parliament for seven and a half years. On Monday King Alfonso slipped out of the city to his hunting preserve, the Pardo, to discuss with leaders of the Constitutional Party their demand that he withdraw from the scene while a national convention meet to decide whether Spain shall continue as a monarchy or become a republic...
That such a proposal can be considered seriously and without tumult is an impressive indication of the distance we have traveled in the last dozen years. The World War is now definitely something of the past. If as yet we cannot discuss it with complete detachment, we can come quite close to doing so. The bitterness and hatred of those insane days have largely abated Witness Count Von Luckner's reception here in Worcester the other evening, a friendly reception not unmixed with admiration. Ten or eleven years ago we wouldn't give much for the count's chances...