Word: maintainable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earnestly the new Premier pledged: "The powers that we ask of you respect the organic statutes and the policy of the country! . . . Show your determination to respect the signature of the State and maintain the integrity of our money...
...already miners and operators alike had begun to seek a new savior. They had picked the bill of Pennsylvania's Senator Joseph F. Guffey to declare bituminous coal a public utility; to set up a Federal Commission to allot coal production; to establish 21 regional marketing agreements to maintain minimum prices, wage and hour schedules for labor; to appropriate $300,000,000 to do these things and to buy up submarginal coal lands; to impose a tax of 3? to 9? a ton on coal...
Although Franklin Roosevelt told the world two days later that there was practically nothing left to save from the whole New Deal, nonetheless he began this week to take preliminary steps toward what looked like legislative action. He instructed Donald Richberg to maintain NRA's staff of 5,400 employes and not to serve notice that their jobs would terminate June 16. He called his Cabinet together, held another press conference, spent many more hours with Congressional leaders. Meanwhile the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Manufacturers Association were urging all businessmen not to cut wages...
...secondary schools, especially those which feed Harvard. As a result, more and more students will tend to enter College with baby learning in social problems, science, and history, and without the mind training which the classics and mathematics have generally been believed a inculcate. It would be oversimple to maintain that these latter offer the only road to rigorous thinking, because the oldest one. But it is unlikely that equal materials can be found in the mass of secondary schools which must struggle with average teachers and large classes, or for that matter in the select preparatory schools which have...
...figures are available concerning instructors holding one-year appointments. It has always been the policy of the College to maintain a healthy overturn so that the lower brackets of the Faculty will not become stagnated. This year, as in past years, a large number of these instructors are leaving for home or for new posts...