Word: interred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been admirable. In December, 1933 President Roosevelt invoked the policy of the "good neighbor", opposed to armed intervention. This was followed by the abrogation of the Platt Amendment, which had given us a treaty right to intervene in Cuba. Finally, in February of this year, he proposed an Inter-American Conference to discuss means of consolidating the peace of the Western Hemisphere; and he showed his sincerity in March by forming a pact with Panama whereby the United States stopped being an officious guardian. The treaty even apologized for the devaluated dollar, by giving that much-abused republic the benefit...
...inter-corporate dividends would be fully taxed as corporate income instead of 90%, exempt as at present...
...bodies have investigated its operating subsidiaries for 20 years. The Interstate Commerce Commission exercised a nominal control over the parent company's long-line operations before the Communications Commission was formed. But between these two points of public supervision lies a vast void which includes the mysteries of inter-company relations. Congress wanted to know "the effect of monopolistic control upon the reasonableness of telephone rates and charges" and why rates were not lowered during the past few "years of declining prices...
...beliefs underlying their programs. They say that it is now so important to work for 'peace' and the preservation of civil liberties that greater effectiveness in the pursuit of these objectives is to be achieved by one organization, because of (1) its unity of direction, (2) its ending of inter-group strife, and (3) its appeal to a broader membership. All three arguments are fallacious. External strife by being made internal will paralyze the organization. In any undergraduate political organization, except one devoted exclusively to parliamentary discussion, an active part is taken by only a small minority centering around...
...Bingham's report brings into the limelight again the perplexing question of the emphasis to be placed upon inter-collegiate football at Harvard. Dr. Bock's opinion that the period of practice should in the interests of health be lengthened by an earlier opening in September seems to give the university two alternatives with regard to this question. Either this extension, with its resulting emphasis upon football, must be adopted in the hope of averting injuries, or the strain upon the athletes must be relieved by a reduction in the number of games...