Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made us what one might call a hopelessly optimistic nation. No evil day can possibly dawn upon us; we are too clever. Secretary Hoover may say, "Increasing population will force the United States to advance in scientific discovery or to lower its standard of living." No matter. We will meet all obstacles and surmount them. Knibbs and Pearl, speaking as sociologists, may point out that the pitifully short lives full of hunger and misery endured by the peoples of China and India, and the economic disturbances of Western Europe, are due in large measure to high population density. What...
Candidates will meet in the CRIMSON building at 7:30 Thursday night and will have the nature of the work which they will be expected to do outlined for them by one of the members of the board...
...discussion will cover a wide field including such topies as "Problems of Belief," "International Relations," "Industry and Race," "Modern Education," and "Social Relationship." The conference will be split up into groups that will be headed by experienced leaders and these groups will meet for special discussion each morning. The afternoon will be devoted to general meetings and recreations...
...heed to the chancellor's words. The Treasury, he announced, faced a deficit of $182,500,000 on last year's finances; $160,000,000 of this was due to the two strikes. The national expenditures for 1927, Chancellor Churchill estimated at $4,091,950,000; to meet them the country faces new taxes to yield an additional $175,000,000 to $200,000,000. Winebibbers, fag-puffers groaned; increased duties on imported wines, tobacco leaf and matches will be imposed. By a 33 1/3% duty on imported tires, by shortening excise credits allowed to brewers, by taking...
...TIME, Feb. 7), there stepped up to shoulder the weighty Portfolio of Finance a Roman Catholic Centrist then internationally little known, Dr. Heinrich Koehler. Immediately he became famed by uttering early, late and often the most dire and pessimistic warnings that Germany would not for long be able to meet her scheduled payments under the Dawes Plan. Yet when Dr. Koehler presented his first Budget, not even his inveterate pessimism could becloud several cheerful facts...