Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Benito Mussolini decreed for all Italy a fresh dose of discipline. Every Italian salary and wage will be cut, announced the Dictator, and so will every Italian price. By submitting to this discipline Italians will obtain (without going off the gold standard) the same competitive advantage in foreign trade that U. S. citizens achieved by debasing their dollar. In II Duce's view inflation or debasement is a slick way of cutting wages and prices under the pretense of raising them. For an undisciplined nation such slickery may be the only...
...measurement of intellectual progress abolished. I recognize, however, that the abandonment of this typically American pedagogic device would demand extraordinary readjustments. These readjustments would be required, notably in the attitude of average American parents who would almost certainly be distressed beyond measure if a son or daughter failed to obtain an A.B. degree at the end of a period of study; and also in the attitude of State School Boards...
...undersigned, holders of Freshman table cards, find it very inconvenient to be unable to obtain breakfast after 8.30 A.M. We do, therefore, hereby petition that one of the following steps be taken in order to remedy the situation...
...require all bank officers to report to their boards of directors loans above a specified minimum which they obtain from any source, so that a directorate will know to whom its officers are beholden...
...protest against the approval by the CRIMSON of lynching as an expedient of justice, as just shown in California, we wish to voice the indignation of a group in the University that is opposed to this attitude. In order to make this protest effective, we would like to obtain the signatures to the following letter of all those who pride themselves on still being human. The letter will be posted on the bulletin boards of the various houses and at the Union: Harvard University Cambridge Mass. November...