Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas Legislature's adjournment last week, Governor Harry Woodring vetoed three bills to restore Death by electricity as the maximum Kansas punishment for first-degree murder or robbery with firearms. The last legal execution by the State was in 1870. Amid a chorus of praise and protest Governor Woodring explained: "My veto of these bills is not actuated by any maudlin sympathy for the criminal. It is axiomatic that it is not the severity but the certainty of punishment that deters the criminal. Public opinion is overwhelmingly against these bills...
...fourth ($6,270,000,000) Liberty bond issues are callable. Already Secretary Mellon has started the machinery for refunding this debt into other bond issues and short-term securities at a lower interest rate. At his request last week Congress passed a bill which upped the maximum offerings under the old Liberty Loan Act from $20,000,000,000 to $28,000,000,000. This eight-billion increase plus a $1,300,000,000 margin left from the War will give the Secretary of the Treasury ample room to turn around in when he asks Liberty bondholders to swap their...
...order to do his best work a tutor needs an opportunity for an adequate amount of research. On a maximum salary of $3,000, however, the average full-time instructor-tutor can not carry on his own study without some outside means of support. Despite the recent raise in faculty salaries this situation continues, because the tutor is paid according to the number of his tutees. A reduction in his schedule, therefore, from 25 to perhaps 15 or 20 men, means a corresponding decrease in salary, leaving him with an income barely sufficient to meet the demands essential to living...
Item: H. R. H. maintained that he carried his own chips about not to encourage high play but to limit it to maximum units of ?5. the highest denomination of H. R. H's chips...
Without a strong, organized opposition the group in power has nothing to compel it to give the maximum of public service. The new progressive movement may not succeed in ousting the Republican-Democratic hybrid from power. But if it merely provides a threatening opposition, it will be of immense service to the nation...