Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decision was a great deal more concerned with the "sexual immorality" it hoped to prevent, than with the appalling human misery it was perpetuating. Until knowledge long in possession of the rich is made accessible to the underprivileged, social standards in Massachusetts will remain at their present disgraceful level...
SOMEWHERE EARL BROWDER WROTE THAT A LIBERAL [TIME, May 9, P. 2] TO HIM WAS A PERSON WHO RAISED DOUBT AND INDECISION TO THE LEVEL OF A PRINCIPLE. NEVER HEARD A BETTER DEFINITION...
...comers was neither his committee's nor the much-amended Senate bill sponsored by Pat Harrison. It was a patched up compromise between the two, which the Senate had hustled through two days before without a record vote. Congressman Vinson, who has always tried to do his level best for Franklin Roosevelt, drawled: "We have done our dead level best to ... be helpful to business recovery." By no means reassured but heartily sick of six months' talk about taxes, the House discussed the bill briefly, extended the hour allotted for discussion to pay tributes to Member Vinson...
Jagged descending lines on some charts tended to level off, or even rise, last week. Barren's business index for the second week in succession stood at 53.7% of normal. Steel production was virtually static at 30% of capacity; lumber-up from 166,926,000 board feet fortnight ago to 179,322,000 last week; automobiles - down from 53,385 units fortnight...
...bonded indebtedness of the railroads must be scaled down to a level which can be sustained." Professor Hansen explained...