Word: low
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Removing the tariff from politics is about as possible as breeding a boneless herring. "High tariff" and "low tariff" are dogmas of two opposite schools of economy if not expressions of two opposite views of life. The inevitable politics of tariff administration were acknowledged when the Commission's founders provided that of its six members, not more than three should be in the same political party. That provision provided deadlock. The deadlock has persisted during virtually all of the Commission's eleven-year existence. The low-tariff deadlocker has been Edward Prentiss Costigan. Since 1922, the high-tariff...
Last week Low-Tariff Mr. Costigan added that High-Tariff Mr. Marvin was "tireless and fanatical"; that his continued membership on the Commission impaired its usefulness and reputation. He criticized two other members of the Commission-Edgar B. Brossard of Utah and Sherman J. Lowell of New York-for belonging to the "Marvin group." He attacked President Coolidge for disposing of former Commissioners, notably David J. Lewis of Maryland, when their views and actions displeased. He also charged disregard of law and improper exercise of power against President Coolidge's record on tariff changes under the flexible provision which...
...quick, intense eyes. ... He is short, not more than five feet five. When I saw him he was dressed in a uniform of dark brown with almost black puttees, immaculately polished; a silk red-and-black handkerchief knotted about his throat; and a broad-brimmed Texas Stetson hat, pulled low over his forehead and pinched shovel-shaped. Occasionally, as we conversed, he shoved his sombrero to the back of his head and hitched his chair forward...
...that every man who takes his studies seriously and spends the requisite amount of time on them should be capable of attaining at least a high C average. If this statement sounds too startling in view of the number of men on probation and those who maintain a precarious low C level, it is only necessary to point to the inroads of athletics, outside activities, society, and perhaps an apathetic attitude which in some cases keeps the most capable men from spending even two hours a day on their studies. It would be difficult to maintain that at least...
...presumptious to advance the possibility of such a Utopia, only extreme optimism could advance its probable occurrence. There will probably always be the low C, and D, and the E men. The Reading Period has proved this truth. It is the A, B and high C men who employed it to the best advantage; on the other hand, the undergraduates who cling to the lower half of the grade hierarchy seem not to have appreciated the experiment...