Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this year and slashed $150,000,000 (17%) off the deficiency appropriation for WPA (TIME, Jan. 23). Still snarling like the most savage, sabre-toothed Economizers ever heard in the political jungles, House Republicans and anti-Administration Democrats ganged up on the Administration's second appropriation measure-a general Deficiency Bill-and chewed $3,550,000* off the bill's budgeted total of $13,529,000-an impressive saving of 26% which would have been truly sensational had Democrats had the heart to take off another $3,500,000 ticketed for a new Census Bureau building...
...repeated that the reason she had not gone further into the case of Harry Bridges was that she was waiting for the Supreme Court to decide the parallel case of Joe Strecker, which Solicitor-General Jackson was about to prosecute for her with real vim (see p. 14). She expressed awe at the immense power she wields over aliens, as their investigator, prosecutor, jury and judge. Because of this, she said, she always tries to act "with scrupulous fairness." She said: "I have entire faith and confidence that Congress will protect me and secure my rights and reputation...
...third omniscient remained in the bare, concrete barrack on Washington's Constitution Avenue where naval command is centred. To Navy men, Admiral William Daniel Leahy is the Navy. As Chief of Naval Operations, he is a one-man counterpart of the Army's General Staff, wielding a vast authority vested in his office by cumulative custom rather than by statute. To that grey and modest gentleman, who normally retires next June, the most important man in the U. S. Navy is Franklin Roosevelt. Because the President has made it so, an important area in the Navy...
...petition read, "We, the undersigned students in Harvard University, ask that the Student Council appoint a committee to report on the non-reappointment of assistant professor Robin D. Feild in particular, and the educational policy of the Fine Arts Department in general...
...present, it is not necessary to revamp the whole system of appointments and tenure. It is only necessary for President Conant to act over the heads of the Fine Arts Six and reinstate Professor Feild. Although departmental autonomy may be desirable as a general rule, the president in exceptional circumstances is fully justified in exercising his prerogative of superior authority. Beyond this, it would be well for the Faculty Committee of Nine to undertake an investigation of the complete fine arts set-up, with a view toward evaluating the methods now used and those which might be introduced...