Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this year's wheat crop is already on the way to market, it does not figure in the Domestic Allotment plan. But farmers will not have to wait until next year to collect their bonuses. As President Roosevelt is eager to put cash quickly into their jeans, a generous Government will pay them first and count on their performance to reduce production later. To get his subsidy, John Wheatman takes these steps...
...them have, was a Senate amendment to the Independent Offices Appropriation bill which would have limited the President's cutting power to 25% of the old payments and kept on the pension rolls not only veterans with battle injuries but also veterans with peacetime ailments which a generous law "presumed"' to be connected with the War. This Senate amendment would have whittled the President's savings on veterans down from $460,000,000 to $290,000,000. He would agree to this set-back of his whole economy program only if Congress would raise...
...reducing their allowances sharply after reclassifying their injuries; 3) striking from the rolls all Spanish War veterans under 62 who could not show service-connected disabilities. Principal losers of pensions were veterans partly disabled in civil life and veterans with ailments developed before Jan. 1, 1925 which a generous law "presumed" to have resulted from the War. The President screwed his system down tight on the veterans, with the idea of easing it up here & there when it was found to pinch too hard...
...decade of the Twenties, with its huge gate receipts and its generous gifts from alumni, left Harvard with one of the finest athletic plants in the country. In common with other colleges, the Athletic Association during the past year has had increasing difficulty in keeping that plant out of the red. Beside the elimination of the "frills" which flourished in the years when money poured into the coffers of the H.A.A., resort has been had to curtailment of the number of trips allowed the various teams, and to moderate reductions in the size and salaries of the coaching staff...
That these symbols of patriotism have engendered in the present college generation impulses to honor the heroic dead was amply attested by the generous and enthusiastic manner in which you responded to assist in the Memorial Service held last Sunday. As Chief Marshal of the parade on that occasion, I wish to add my personal thanks and word of appreciation to each of you who participated and helped to make successful these fitting ceremonies. Dana T. Gallup, Chief Marshal...