Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...replaced by some less bellicose man. At the same time Japan would make peaceful overtures to the two countries whose friendship she would most desire in the event of a Russo-Japanese conflict, Britain and the United States. The attempt to placate England took the form of agreeing to limit her exports of cotton goods to India and making concessions in order to secure the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese treaty. Yesterday the United States was tackled, when the Japanese offered to discuss the naval ratios which may be revised when the Treaty of Washington expires in 1935; this...
...dollar would have a value of between 50? and 60?. Immediately after the President's message was read the Treasury boosted the domestic gold price which for 21 business days had stood still at $34.06 an ounce (60⅔? dollar) to $34.45-or a 60? dollar, the upper limit set, announced that future purchases would be made not by the RFC but by the New York Federal Reserve Bank for the Treasury. The monetary gold stock of the U. S. including the gold to be taken from the Reserve Banks is $4,300,000,000. So the "profit...
Harvard issues cards to those twenty-one and over allowing them to sit at separate tables and imbibe. The majority of Yale undergraduates under eighteen, which limit the Connecticut law stipulates as the dead line, is considerably less than those under twenty-one so that this system would be more successful than at Harvard which finds that this method causes too much of a division among students and separates the tutors from the undergraduates. Everything points for a successful handling of the problem here; may we have the opportunity to try it! The Yale News...
...state noted for its puritanical public morality control, has found it feasible to serve liquor to anyone over eighteen. It seems reasonable to suppose that a similar clause might be made a part of the Massachusetts law; while the sensible thing to do is to remove any arbitrary age limit, and serve liquor to those who look capable of holding what they have ordered, enforcing rigidly the law against serving to those already drunk, the sensible thing is not always possible in matters involving legislation. Whether the law-givers decide to remove all limits, or only to lower the limit...
...College should be ready to make exceptions to its iron rules when they seriously limit the student's opportunity to acquire a welbrounded education. He should not be deprived of the benefit of other equally important courses for the sake of a distribution requirement which falls to take into consideration his previous education...