Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is no absolute to which the question of morality in the drama can be referred. Overacting joined to broad dialogue may be offensive to public taste, but theatre-goers are less impressionable than they were, and the effective powers of a play have been exaggerated. Where possibility of offense is confined to isolated lines of dialogue, sweeping censorship argues high susceptibility on the part of the audience which would view the performance. Why the audiences of "Fiesta" should be more receptive than those which attend shows in other parts of the city is problematical...
TIME now feels less...
Because the Congresses have refused to obey the Constitution and reapportion popular representation to fit the changes of U. S. population since 1910, many a State has more Representatives than it is proportionately entitled to and many another has less. Representative Fenn of Connecticut has long and often proposed a bill which, in its present form, would keep the House membership at 435 and reapportion the seats on the basis of the 1930 census, when taken. Estimates are that California would benefit most, gaining six seats. Next would be Michigan, gaining four seats; then Ohio, 3; New Jersey & Texas...
...appropriated $29,478,282.294, cutting the Budget Bureau's estimates by only $321,951,495, or 1.16% of the total. Of this amount, $135,468,732 was saved by the Naval Disarmament Conference, from the Budget for 1923. Since 1923, the Congresses have appropriated only $55,971,630 less than the Budget Bureau's estimates, or a margin of faultfinding and disagreement of less than .2%. President Coolidge declared himself most gratified by such "hearty co-operation...
...surplus of revenues over expenditures. The Treasury expects its total receipts for the year to increase about 10 millions over 1929, whereas the Government's total expenditures are figured at 14 millions below 1929. One large item helping this decrease will be 35 millions less to be paid in interest on the public debt, the principal of which will have been reduced by another billion (leaving a total of some 18 billions) by the end of 1929. The Government's running expenses are, in general, on the increase. The Budget Bureau keeps its aggregate down by paring...