Word: drastic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Friday night he extended and developed the line of thought that has dominated the athletic program for the past few years. For in 1935, when it became apparent how far the H.A.A. had gone off the gold standard since the flush days of the Republican era of the twenties, drastic cuts in the athletic budget made it clear that sooner or later the University would have to shoulder the responsibility for its athletic program, as well as its direction and control. And the traditional way for the University to look after its activities is through endowments...
...Japanese Trapped," Japan's first great objective is to seize all Chinese territory north of the Yellow River, and the crumpling of Chinese resistance there last fortnight was followed last week by drastic changes in the Chinese command, dictated by Generalissimo Chiang from Nanking...
...recent drastic decline in stocks, on a very moderate volume of selling, reveals an impairment of the efficiency of the stockmarket that calls for prompt correction. This impairment is to be explained as the cumulative effect of a variety of recent governmental policies, many of which can and should be modified without abandoning the underlying policy of eliminating abuses from the securities market. The tax on capital gains at high bracket income tax rates can be changed to a low rate flat tax with positive gain in revenue to the Treasury. The rule regarding trading by insiders can be modified...
Emergencies arise, nevertheless, when such drastic curtailments of liberty are warranted. The freedom of a few must sometimes be sacrificed in order to preserve freedom of all. Martial law is surely proper in a territory invaded by foreign troops, so that the ordinary courts can no longer sit and the army must be left free to take every available means to maintain the defense of the Nation...
...President called forth a grim specter by his consistent policy of warring on industry, and unless his whole attitude and the attitude of his Administration undergo a drastic change and unless Congress reasserts its independence we will be in the midst of a more terrible depression than we have yet known...