Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...social justice. Hotly he cited the case of Bethlehem Steel Co., which, he charged, brought 7,500 workers to Lackawanna, N. Y., discharged 6,000 of them during Depression, even tried to evict them from company houses so that it could tear down the worthless buildings and thus lower its tax bill...
Local newspapers have been working on the story of payments for retired Harvard men in the lower brackets for approximately two years, or the length of time that the plan has been under consideration...
...easiest way of working out degree requirements would be to lower the necessary courses to eleven, but demand that these should all be advanced. Elementary courses would not count toward the degree, and would only be taken by four-year men whose lack of school preparation demanded it. In this manner a comprehensible choice would be given to incoming Freshmen which would entail no useless friction and frantic decisions followed by summer school sessions...
...case is expected to come up for argument in the highest Wisconsin tribunal sometime this week. If no error can be found in the decision of the lower court, Harvard will have only to settle the estate of Mrs. Nieman, pay Federal and Wisconsin taxes, and pocket the remainder. How much this will be is still very much of an unknown quantity...
...Judge Sheridan said in part: "There is a vicious notion prevalent that any will not acceptable to the testator's next of kin may be broken in the courts upon very frivolous grounds". Since in the great majority of cases the superior court upholds the decision of the lower, the University would seem to be in line for a large sum of money...