Word: maintainable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maintain at least a medium individual farm income level was the purpose of the Cotton Acreage Reduction Program, launched in 1933 and continued last year. The landowner pledged himself "insofar as possible, [to] maintain on this farm the number of tenants and other employes," which he had maintained in the past. He was also supposed to pass along pro rata the share croppers' share of the reduction benefit payments...
...number of Southern landlords, correctly informed by their lawyers that the cotton reduction contract has no legal teeth and does not bind them to maintain the normal number of tenants or to pass their benefit shares along impartially, found means of withholding the reduction fee, ousting tenants from the land. AAA now admits that whereas the pre-New Deal cotton income went 40% to landlords, 60% to tenants, the reverse ratio may now hold true. From a class and country where letter-writing comes hard, some 7,000 share croppers had by last week scrawled out despairing protests to AAAdministrator...
...These self-styled economists forget the hard battle civilization has waged to include more than the so-called fundamentals and the imperative need for the most inclusive kind of education possible to meet the increasing complexities of life. In the last analysis, higher education and society itself cannot maintain themselves at the present level, unless provision is made for the future by re-establishing the public schools to their former position. The Federal government, under the drive of depression, has obviated many of the so-called state's rights. It can and should divert money from building an air force...
...cross-section of the nation's schools, or lack of them, is no edifying sight. Last year approximately three and a half million children, to again quote Dr. Frank, "found the door to educational advantage slammed in their faces." Where struggling communities maintain some parts of their school system, teachers labor with greatly augmented classes, due to unemployment conditions. Although their efficiency is impaired in every way, including overwork and cuts in meagre salaries, the teachers of the country have shown a courageous and public-spirited attitude, even providing lunches for penniless children as well as assuming many burdens...
Consensus was that he had not. But while nobody would ever again electrify the part of Sadie Thompson as Jeanne Eagels had, it was agreed that Tallulah Bankhead's Thompson was well worth watching. Where Jeanne Eagels' Sadie had seemed to maintain at least a vestige of hidden personal reserve, Tallulah Bankhead's flounced all over the stage with the abandon of the late Texas Guinan. In accounting for Miss Bankhead's failure to shade her various denunciations of the preacher who wanted to bring Sadie to salvation by way of a penitentiary sentence, only...