Word: moratoriumed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kinetic conditions will bring great injustice. Insistence on torturing marks to square with the established percentages puts instructors under the unstated compulsion of keeping men outside the pale of a passing mark. The Government One staff should be allowed complete freedom in marking for the next year. During this moratorium they could observe whether the quality of work continues to improve. If the present tide ebbs, the level of marks would automatically equate with the curve. But if the improvement should prove permanent Professor Holcombe could then consider changing the course standards to preserve the indubitable advantage of having...
...Last summer Rector Frederic Sydney Fleming of Manhattan's rich old Trinity Parish came out for a moratorium on preaching (TIME, Aug. 17). Fortnight ago the Institute of Public Opinion reported that its opinion samplings show that people are 80% in favor of preaching as it now exists...
Died. Louis T. McFadden, 60, longtime (1915-35) Republican Representative from Pennsylvania who twice moved to impeach President Hoover for declaring the 1932 War debt moratorium; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan...
...years-the impotence of the Church is the worst failure." Remedy offered by this lean, ascetic-looking churchman: "I seriously believe the Christian Church would once again bring salvation to the world, and begin to save its own soul, if it had the wisdom and courage to declare a moratorium on preaching for a period of one or two years...
...relief of drought victims in the Great Plains states. . . . Think what a calamity it would be if the Hoover doctrine were in force!" In five days WPA placed 16,500 farmers on relief projects, made ready to handle another 58,500. The Resettlement Administration declared a one-year moratorium on some 30,000 rural rehabilitation loans, prepared to pour out $18,000,000 for crop loans and feed. With Secretary of Agriculture Wallace vacationing in Colorado, the AAA continued to amend its soil conservation program, permitting farmers to cut for forage soil-depleting crops hitherto condemned to be plowed under...