Word: end
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this fog-the President. He is a great pilot. He skillfully avoids the shoals and rocks. . . . He is willing to bend, if necessary. . . . He is really a great man. . . . What happens in the Cabinet is never disclosed. . . . However, Mr. Hoover has a group who will handle the executive end of the Government efficiently and very honestly...
Governor Kohler has been a wet-Dry, a dry-Wet, in politics. In approving the end of Wisconsin's enforcement he warned Wisconsinites not to be misled "into the belief that traffic in intoxicating liquors . . . has become lawful or that the saloon will return. The Constitution of the U. S., the Volstead Act, and the Jones Law are still in full force and effect...
President Hoover established oil conservation as a major policy of his administration when he ordered an end to permits for drilling on Government land, and to renewals of lapsed oil leases (TIME, March 25). This official step encouraged the oil industry, as represented by the American Petroleum Institute, to believe that it had a friend in the White House who would smile upon its own efforts to hold down production. Confronted with an enormous output and low prices, operators agreed among themselves to plug their production for 1929 at the 1928 level. They asked the Federal Oil Conservation Board...
...having accomplished their purpose, are discarded. And yet a student may be refused a minor honors degree because in the opinion of the faculty perhaps one of the C's appearing in his record should have been a B. The means, in other words, is permitted to overshadow the end...
Great emphasis has been put on the latitude which the divisional plan allows a man; a mediocre student may develop in four years to the point where he may prove, at the end, that he is worthy of a degree with honors. In order that the award of degrees may be faithful to this theory, which is a sound one, it seems unjust that such a man should miss the prize he has earned because of a slip in perhaps, his sophomore year, when he was not yet of honors calibre. As long as, a senior's course record...