Word: levelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ohio's Governor White, refusing to declare a bank holiday, prepared legislation to hold withdrawals down to the level of the liquid assets. On his own hook the Mayor of Dayton ordered a three-day moratorium. In Cleveland, Akron, Lima, Canton, and many a smaller city, bankers agreed among themselves to limit withdrawals to a mere dribble of cash. The good-natured, holiday-spirited crowd which thronged the great lobby of Cleveland's Union Trust Co. to get what money it could was typical of similar gatherings in hard-hit States...
...view of the experience of the past two years," Mr. Pennypacker says, "it appears to be a fitting time to consider whether a definite fixed numerical quota, unchanging from year to year, is on the whole desirable. The class of candidates varies somewhat, the level of scholarship in the entrance tests is not a fixed quantity, and the limitations of staff and equipment are better known to the Administrative Board and to other officers of the University than to the Committee on Admission. A greater flexibility from year to year in regulating the number of first-year students...
...Chamber, with Vice President Garner on the rostrum to help him steer, will be Arkansas' ruddy, rugged Joseph Taylor Robinson who has gamely forgotten his own unsuccessful run for the Vice-Presidency in 1928. For all his red-faced bellowing Leader Robinson is at heart a level-headed conservative who will do his utmost to keep the Roosevelt legislative program on the track. The same quick temper which once set him fighting on a Washington golf course is Leader Robinson's greatest handicap in uniting his followers...
...himself modestly midway at the long table of his peers. Irish Playwright George Bernard Shaw, who for years has twinklingly told the world that he is a greater man than Shakespeare, has now written a fable that will further shock the righteous. In it he puts himself on a level with Voltaire. Christ and Mohammed; he is a hero and the God of the Old Testament is a bogey-villain. In spite of his destructive wit which many even nowadays call blasphemous. Iconoclast Shaw is a kindly soul; like the light-hearted pessimist, his good nature keeps breaking through. Choleric...
...Athletics-for-all policy takes another blow from the B.A.A. Having weathered the opposition to the charges for the use of the new gymnasium, the Association now practically doubles the charge. It is doing this by keeping the price for a half year participation ticket at the same level as that for a full year ticket...