Word: limits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maximum limit of $1.75 per $100 on the realty tax (still very low by comparison with other cities...
...time limit of 48 hours was set for acceptance. When Lawrence Berenson, representative of American Jewish relief organizations, made counterproposals, the Cubans broke off negotiations. Then the original Cuban offer was accepted but it was too late. The Cubans, who felt that in receiving 5,000 German-Jewish refugees they had already done more than their share, declared the matter "definitely closed," refused to listen to further pleas. A young Jewess who crashed an official reception to appeal to President Laredo Bru on behalf of her parents on the St. Louis was hustled off by aides...
...staff. On the one hand, teachers of proved capacity are discharged for no other reason than that they have already taught effectively for eight years. On the other hand, teachers of developing capacity are given every possible incentive, unintentional as well as intentional, not to crowd the eight-year limit. These losses are being tragically multiplied by a growing conviction, which no one can welcome, that an appointment in the University for whatever period--even if can be secured--is less and less to be desired...
According to President Conant's statement to me, it is his policy, in offering certain appointments without limit of time under which the appointee would contract to give a particular specified course, to stipulate that the appointee assent to a qualifying clause of the following nature: "If at any time you should decide that you are no longer willing to give such course, or if in the opinion of a competent group of men you are giving such course unsatisfactorily, you would then agree to resign your position and would terminate your connection with the University." President Conant made...
...coast of Palestine the weirdest and most wretched drama of the homeless was taking place. There, outside the three-mile limit, a collection of jampacked, unseaworthy little tubs lay waiting for a chance to run cargoes of permitless refugees ashore. There were Greek sailing schooners like the Panagiya Correstrio, usually carrying three fishermen, with 180 below decks; tramps like the grimy, 320-ton Assimi, flying the flag of Panama, which hauled 270 German and Central European Jews for 36 days before British officials arrested its captain; cargo boats like those which, unable to run refugees into Palestine, abandoned 424 Danzig...