Word: extention
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe that the principle of graduated payments might well be incorporated. Large corporate organizations, whether in industry or agriculture, in the past have obtained from the Government certain advantages which oftentimes have enabled them to profit to an unusual extent. ... I would ask your most earnest consideration of the advisability of applying the same principle to the sugar payments by means of an amendment [to the proposed bill] which would provide for payments at rates for large operating units lower than those applicable to family-size farms...
Great efforts by the British League of Nations Union to coax down to the station the British Foreign Secretary, well-dressed Captain Anthony Eden, were rewarded to the extent that he sent his tactful private secretary, Mr. Oliver C. Harvey, who is always careful to dress somewhat badly. Rumpled Mr. Harvey slipped into the Pullman, spoke for a few minutes to Haile Selassie, then presented His Majesty to many an eminent, top-hatted friend of the League of Nations and of Ethiopia, including Economist Sir Walter Thomas Layton and Lord Allen of Hurtwood. They pressed upon His Majesty an engraved...
...this, almost $90,000 is spent for new books every year and another $17,000 for binding pamphlets, leafiest, catalogues, etc., and for re-binding worn out volumes. Of the total income of over a quarter million dollars, the University collects nickel fines from students to the extent of about $400 every year. It also has a constant expenditure for gas of $.53 encoded in this $341,000 budget...
...helpless as the Bank is today, the country will be better off without change if the Bank is only "reformed" to the extent of making it a political shuttle-cock. The strike and M. Blum's program have far-reaching effects in other than the national sphere, for France is essential to the delicate balance of European peace. Let there be one misstep--in connection with the Bank of France or elsewhere--then the whole foundation of European polity and security will crumble away...
...this condition, the Council remained utterly inattentive except when it was necessary to pay bills or collect pledges. Pressure was exerted through other agencies and the courses were reformed to a great extent; two members of the Council forced through a revision system of Freshman elections which made them somewhat intelligible; finally, the Union Committee became conscious before its term expired and made some order out of the chaos of first year extra-curricular activities and provided reviews for Freshman course work...