Word: evils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labor Relations Bill, whose fundamental premises had suddenly been given a set of question marks. Only nonpartisan who saw a silver lining for President Roosevelt & friends in the Weirton case outcome was Pundit Walter Lippmann. Said he: "What has been attempted under NRA . . . is a mixture of good and evil. . . . It was bound to break down. It has broken down. And the courts will do an historic service not only to the nation as a whole, but to recovery and reform, to the President and his party, if they liquidate a major part of the centralized regulation to which...
...messenger with the Southern Railway, eking out his $8-per-month wage with tips and newspaper-selling at night. After seven years his salary was $35 per month. Meantime he had learned shorthand and typing, got a schooling in literature from an old classical scholar fallen on evil days. In 1896 a move to Savannah gave him a chance to study mathematics at night under the city's Superintendent of Schools...
...Chapayev" avoids the usual evil of Soviet films, excessive propaganda; it glorifies the man rather than the movement. It's treatment of the White commanders is likewise sympathetic and fair. But it does succumb to an incredibility in its battle scenes which some of the better American films have been able to surmount...
...stressed, and stressed again: that Civil Service in America, whether Federal, State. or Municipal, is at present restricted to positions largely routine in nature. The higher categories of public service, in which precedents are set, and policies determined, are almost invariably filled with political appointees. To be sure, this evil is common to Civil Services the world over, and will be corrected only over a space of years, so deeply is the spoils system rooted in democratic countries. Because the odds are heavily against the young civil servant's being able to rise to an executive position...
Special exception for individual cases might well cure the evil from this reservation. But up till now there have been no exceptions. Every Literature requirement has had to be fulfilled in the "original language." But even had the authorities unbent in the treatment of special petitions, there would be no reason for retaining a bad requirement among the written rules of the University. It should be removed...