Word: evils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...balanced the Budget, passed constructive measures and then adjourned quickly, in two months, would not that have a good effect on the country?" And Pat Harrison jokingly advised Mr. Houston to "get off that subject" when the onetime Secretary of the Treasury began to hector Senator Smoot on the evil effects of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. But for the most part Senator Harrison sat back and listened, with what seemed to be complete agreement, to the expression of conservative business opinion...
...designed to give the student a means for ampler discussion on topics related to the required reading, presents some very serious drawbacks which at the same time anathematize the whole section system. Of course the section meeting has its use and at best must be tolerated as a necessary evil: but lacing undue emphasis on it is a fact which bears some discussion...
...paces his production slowly and sets it in a middle class home in Kansas. Here the audience is given a lesson in speeding the parting guest. Taylor Holmes is the unwanted visitor who gets the gate. Not only does he have to leave but when he tries to reciprocate evil with good by finding a career, for one of the girls in the family where he had been staying, the girl elopes on the night he had planned to announce his engagement...
...classes for the backward and in the large number of various sorts of experts which infest every modern school. Actually, there is another and even worse cause for growing expenditures: this is the movement towards a large number of courses in every conceivable subject. This innovation has had two evil effects: it has raised the cost of an education, and it has led the present generations too far from the benefits of a classical training...
...think it has cost him a great deal of money and he does not seem to be able to make it go, and will be obliged to sell it. He is very socially interested and hoped that he might be fortunate enough to draw people away from the evil saloons...