Word: lowerers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Resolution: That English A-1 and English 79 be abolished, and that a course, giving credit towards a degree, be created, combining the best elements of both. This course, partly literary and partly a training in writing, is to be required for all freshmen taking lower than 75 on the College Board examinations, and for those who have been admitted from the first seventh of their school class. The training in grammar and writing is to be given in the weekly sections, and the literary part of the course in the lectures...
...understand the reference to the women in the "lower brackets." I must belong to that class, but I've been trying to get out of that class. Does it mean that I can get help from the PWA so that I can have several women to help me? If I had that much help, I could take care of my home better and go to "higher brackets...
...railway pension act, passed ten months ago, required railroads to pension their retiring employes. Franklin Roosevelt, who made it law, was its first critic, remarking as he signed it that it was crudely drawn. Second critics were railroads who contested it in court. Third critic was a lower court which held it unconstitutional. When five Supreme Court Justices became its final critics, few people were surprised...
...trial courts found the Schechters guilty of violating the fair trade provisions of the poultry code: selling diseased fowl; filing false sales volume and price scale reports; permitting butchers to select the chickens they wanted killed, in spite of the code's insistence on "straight killing." But neither lower court found the Schechters outside the law because they worked employes longer than code hours, paid them less than code wages. Both courts decided that the code's labor provisions affected an intrastate affair with which the Federal Government had no right to meddle. Jointly the Schechters...
...Virginia's ancient constitution completely made over, reduced the number of departments in the state government from 100 to 12, revised the tax system so that farmers in Virginia now have lower taxes than in almost any other state, insisted on a pay-as-you-go system of highway building, increased the mileage 45%. When he took office Virginia had a deficit of $1,368,000. When he left office after four years, he left a cash surplus...