Word: equalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dealers made a great point of the necessity of keeping the Army out of civilian politics, of shushing an officer who steps across the line. With equal vehemence anti-New Dealers accused the Roosevelt Administration of being unable to take criticism, of exhibiting a vengeful spirit against General Hagood. Bitterest comment along this line came from Cartoonist Jay ("Ding") Darling, who lately retired from the New Deal as the disillusioned Chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey. For the New York Herald Tribune syndicate he drew a picture entitled "The New Deal Administration Welcomes Constructive Criticism," and below, "X marks...
...each industry to see how much it could produce. These figures would have to be adjusted to the public demand for each industry's goods. Wages would have to be adjusted up and prices down so that the number of dollars in the public's pockets would equal the value of all goods produced. That such a national blueprint of abundance could be drafted and carried out by voluntary agreement of industry, Dr. Ezekiel doubted. That it could be done even if the Government promised to buy up all surplus goods which industry could not sell, he also...
...nine o'clock every morning except Sunday a herd of scholars scampers hastily up the steps of Widener Library, swishes through the turnstiles, rounds the marble stairways in stride, and finally deposits an overnight book on the Reading Room desk. The return journey is completed with equal haste, minus a few tedious and precious minutes while the unsmiling book inspector carefully Philo Vances every brief case, lawyers bag, and simple booksatchel. Such expenditure of energy and valuable pre-nine-o'clock time is not only highly inconvenient but unnecessary...
...food prices, concluded, logically, that "a decline in total tonnage is indicated." The "average" Kroger store had sales of about $1,000 a week, profit of about $1,000 a year. President Albert H. Morrill said that 1935 taxes were about 10% of 1935 sales, which would make taxes equal to a little more than five times profits. Kroger made $2.25 a common share and, at $26.50, sold at a conservative eleven times earnings...
...Significant fact is that, unlike other committees of the House, nearly all of which are top-heavy with Democrats, the committee to investigate the Townsend Plan consists of four Democratic and four Republican members. This Democratic generosity was due to the majority's desire to have Republicans share equal responsibility for the investigation. Republicans were glad to share the responsibility because, practically speaking, the investigation is a move to defend sitting members of Congress from the attacks of the Townsendite candidates...