Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Department of Labor. The Bureau disseminates authoritative information on maternity and infant hygiene, and it furnishes funds with which States carry on the active work within their borders. There are various conditions on which this financial aid is given. Some is given outright; some must be matched by an equal appropriation from the State...
...Congress, said in answer that the Council of the Congress had already decided to ask the Amsterdam Internationale to issue invitations to call such a conference at which Russians could be present. This was taken to mean that Brit ish trades unionism would cooperate with Russians upon an equal basis but would not permit the latter to dominate or dictate...
...Directors. He had received $7,000 in salary and $3,500 as a yearly bonus, as well as directors' fees. The coal company had no regular system of paying pensions. It had a large surplus. The Directors' shares were sold, and the Board of Directors made a "gratuitous appropriation," equal to $3.00 a share, which was divided among various retiring employes. One of these was Mr. Parrott, who received $35,000. Mr. Parrott reported this sum as a gift and therefore not taxable. The coal company reported the appropriation as a salary deduction from gross income and therefore not taxable...
...portion of the book equal to if not greater than that devoted to battles is devoted to the description of drill regulations and the organization of the body military. These things are not of primary importance except to military men, yet there is plenty of interest in the book for the general reader. In military affairs we have too often been the plaything of chance. Hear a few stories of our past which we too little know...
Political. Before the War, Britain's influence on the Continent of Europe rested snugly upon the doctrine of the balance of power. In those days, the Continental Great Powers were Germany, Austria - Hungary, Russia, France. "Balance of power" meant to Britain the equal division of these Powers so that she could, at a given time, exert a decisive influence...