Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Standards of Living. Economists might dispute about actual U. S. standards of living. Statisticians might collect masses of figures-as they did-to document the standards of living at different income levels. Politicians might argue over the highest standard possible for the U. S., humanitarians might concentrate on the needs at the lowest income level, even Hollywood might try dramatizing the plight of one third of a nation. But the essential U. S. standard, as the yardstick by which it measured its prosperity, did not shrink in ten years of depression. Advertisements in U. S. magazines and newspapers showed that...
...light of this, the Administration's action can be interpreted in two different ways. First, it is possible that Mr. Conant does not propose to carry out the intentions of the Committee of Eight, but plans permanently to hold the "middle group" at a lower level. Needless to say, this would add up to an incalculable injury to Harvard's educational facilities...
...yourself on his level. (Mother sat at table with Junior...
...Radek? "The population of [Polish] villages and towns . . . enthusiastically meets the Red Army. The mighty Red Army and the high cultural level of its rank and file evoke general admiration. The population tears down Polish flags and replaces them with Soviet flags. . . . Peasants offered the Red Army the traditional bread and 'salt [tokens of brotherhood] on embroidered towels and invited Red Army men into their houses." So said Tass, the official Soviet news agency. As the week advanced, Communist cohorts from Moscow poured in after the advancing Red Army, brought 100,000 portraits of Stalin, Lenin and Marx, tons...
...State (offered by President Harding), New York City's Mayor, New York's Governor. But Republican politicians have long known there was one office Nicholas Murray Butler coveted. Biggest Butler boom for President came in 1920, when his supporters, to bring him down to the voters' level, coined the slogan: "Pick Nick for a Picnic in November...