Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even conservative Cubans could not grow angry with Los Ninos ("The Boys") but the great problem was what The Boys were going to do next. There was no leader; every member of the Directorio Estiidiantil had an equal voice. The nearest approach to leaders seemed to be a wild-eyed pair known as Santiago Alvarez and Ysmael Seijas who handed out Springfields and automatic rifles to other shirt-sleeved students, formed a most irregular militia...
...With the Roosevelt Administration in a position to control the radio; with an almost equal power over motion pictures, and with public emotion stimulated to such a tense state that public meetings must of necessity reflect the spirit as well as the letter of inspired governmental propaganda, the only possibility of the U. S. escaping a dictatorship was inherent in the fight of ... journalism for public recognition of the freedom of the Press...
...prerogative, a sort of vail as compensation for the numerous inconveniences which they suffer in their office, of doing much as they please. They may flick cigarettes from the mouths of undergraduates who violate the no-smoking rules, or bash in the felt crown of impolite sophomores, with equal impunity. Of course, they run a risk of embarrassment in case they abuse their privileges. There is still extant a Professor who walked into the New Lecture Hall to see how his assistant was supervising an examination in his popular survey course. To his immense irritation he found a young...
...proposed that, to stimulate business, all employers give their employes a week's pay in advance on condition that it all be spent the first week. Suiting example to precept he gave his own employes a week's advance to be repaid without interest in 20 equal instalments out of their pay (which he at the same time increased...
...removed, Secretary Wallace began to talk of subsidizing the export of 50,000,000 bu. of wheat from the Pacific Northwest, and of raising the wheat processing tax to pay for the subsidy. The Secretary of Agriculture has power to fix processing taxes at an amount equal to the difference between current prices and the average price (88?) for 1909-14. The present tax of 30? a bushel represented that difference on June 15. For several weeks wheat prices have been about 88? but the tax continues. But the processing tax can be increased only if wheat prices fall below...