Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another new thought was on the President's lips last week: "Despite our Federal Government expenditures the entire debt of our national economic system, public and private together, is no larger today than it was in 1929, and the interest thereon is far less than...
Outgo. In fiscal 1940 the Government hopes to spend nearly half a billion less than this year-$8,995,000,000. With the world becoming unsafe for democracy again, biggest increase will be in national defense, and a real beanstalk in Franklin's garden is now interest on the national debt, which in 1940 will...
...will stop over for a two-hour tea in Paris, where French Premier Edouard Daladier is expected to warn Mr. Chamberlain not to start appeasing Dictator Benito Mussolini with French territory. Mr. Chamberlain's dilemma at Rome will be that he cannot get concessions from Italy (such as less co-operation with Germany, no more menacing gestures toward France) without giving away something, and he cannot give away much without arousing opposition at home...
Crooner Abdul-Wahab will take no less than $400 for singing in the flesh-a fee the Italians never saw their way to giving him. On the British program, besides a coterie of other Arabic talent, broadminded Crooner Abdul-Wahab in person cleared his voice, began his popular warbling, sang in Arabic an "ode to Shakespeare." His fee for helping British imperialism along: $625 an appearance...
...clothed, and ill-housed." With education as their weapon, the student tutors are striking eventually at the reasons for adult perversions. The long-run results of this new program do not bear fruit as yet. But the immediate consequences are equally important. Tutor no less than tutee will benefit from such contacts; it is the "faculty" as well as the pupils who receive the education. Nevertheless the value of the "undergraduate faculty" plan lies mainly in the new constructive attitude of P.B.H. It has realized that prevention is more vital than cure, that preconditioning accomplishes much more than reconditioning. Phillips...