Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture is a message of peace. I have painstakingly avoided every indication of political propaganda. All I wanted to convey to the people was the historical law that civilizations have to balance the destructive forces by an equal effort on the constructive and creative side...
...intend to give the Negroes more than they ever had before." It was agreed that white conferences with Negro members (i.e. in the North) could keep them. Behind closed doors Negro Bishop Robert E. Jones (Northern Methodist) of New Orleans made a valiant attempt to make an issue of Equal Rights. Negro President Willis J. King of Gammon Theological Seminary, who was reported to have been promised a bishopric, said nothing. Finally, in public, everyone sighed with relief when Bishop Jones arose, said that the segregation plan was acceptable to his people...
What the bill as passed meant was that: 1) aged poor pensioned by states would be given an equal pension by the Federal Government, up to $15 a month; 2) unemployment insurance (maximum: $15 for 26 weeks a year) would be established as soon as states passed appropriate laws; 3) workers who reach 65 after 1941 would receive Federal annuities; 4) eventually some 30,000,000 persons would receive such federal benefits; 5) taxes on payrolls and wages to provide these benefits will begin with the collection of about $230,000,000 in 1936 and amount to about...
...sure way to rile an alumnus of Antioch College is to call his alma mater a trade school. Every Antioch student alternates work and study. For five to ten weeks he plugs at a liberal arts curriculum on the campus at Yellow Springs, Ohio. Then for an equal period he works in an office, store, factory, newspaper or at any job which appeals to him. Antioch's President Arthur Ernest Morgan (now on leave as chairman of Tennessee Valley Authority) thinks of the work periods as a preparation for a full life and a substitute for the farm chores...
...angel, Mrs. Alexander Murray Hadden. A statuesque Manhattan socialite with white hair and blue saucer eyes, Mrs. Hadden every year invites a select group of U. S. colleges to give one or more of their students a $300 scholarship at the Union. To furnish contacts she then corrals an equal number of foreign students. Ostensibly the Union is devoted to a serious eight-week study of international relations. But Mrs. Hadden, who is thought frivolous by many of her serious-minded charges, provides a breath less round of teas, receptions, dinners, mountain climbs, trips to Italy or Ger many. This...