Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this was painful enough to Mr. Morgenthau, but doubtless less painful than the discussion of raising the debt limit. Loyal as he is to Franklin Roosevelt, Henry Morgenthau would like by this time to see the end of the Government's perennial deficit and mounting debt. Before the House committee he declared his belief that a $50,000,000,000 debt would be perfectly safe. Before the Senate committee he cited the continued demand for U. S. bonds as proof that the Federal credit has not been undermined. Senator Glass rasped, "You have maneuvered the damn thing to where...
Meanwhile, the Thakore Saheb stalled for time. The 29-year-old ruler certainly did not want to be responsible for the Mahatma's death. In no less a pickle was the British Government. Congress Governments made what political capital they could by wiring New Delhi that if Gandhi died, Britain would have to answer for the consequences. Britain did not want to have a dead Gandhi on its hands, but, if Britain gave in on this point and forced the Thakore Saheb to reform his government, a bad precedent would be set. Then Congress leaders could attack other Indian...
...other Haldane writings. Whether or not a conversion to Marxism involves paralysis of the sense of humor, the au thor apparently decided that he could make the best impression with this book by assuming an air of grave reasonable ness. Despite this effort, many readers will find it less a proof of the scientific validity of Marxism than a collection of opinions on science and Marxism by John Burdon Sanderson Haldane...
...wise, beneficent alumnus has not yet materialized. Unpopular as it would doubtless be, a general tax on the student body appears to be the only practical solution; it would amount to only two dollars per student if levied on graduate men as well as the undergraduate body. No less pressing than the most urgent cavity, the problem cries for solution. A toothache to students, it is a headache to the administration, and a tax seems to be the only powder likely to relieve the pain...
...first place, the idea of averaging $5000 annual earnings after five years is absurd. John R. Tunis in his survey of Harvard's class of 1911 showed that even after a quarter of a century his classmates were earning less than $5000 per man. The number of college students has increased almost six-fold since Tunis' undergraduate days: the college diploma is progressively decreasing in its power to assure large incomes...