Word: offer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt had another expedient reason besides the Recession for making his peace offer. Up in the Supreme Court last week, two days after the President's proposal was made, came another and significant test case on the old problem of utility rate-fixing. The California Railroad Commission fixed rates for Pacific Gas & Electric which the company contends did not take into due consideration the reproduction cost of the property. Since the new rates would reduce P. G. & E.'s revenue some $2,000,000, the company got an injunction which the California Railroad Commission appealed. The Federal...
Pundit Walter Lippmann opined: "I should have no doubt myself that the President's offer is sincere. For while he and certain of his supporters might feel at a loss during election time if they did not have the utilities for a scapegoat, Mr. Roosevelt's offer is in entire accord with his most practical political necessities. Thus, although he does not need political peace with the utilities, he very urgently needs an economic peace...
...curriculum of Chicago's 37 high schools will be reorganized over a five-year period, he said, so that eventually 80% of the courses they offer will be vocational instead of 80% academic. This means that only a small proportion of Chicago's 130,000 high-school pupils will still be studying exclusively college preparatory subjects. Dr. Johnson declared the schools will try to give students "what they want," but he estimated 80 to 90% will want some vocational training. These will continue to get instruction in a few basic academic subjects, such as English. To make possible...
...assembled bankers unanimously agreed with President Hall when he accused the undistributed profits tax and the capital gains tax of being the major hurdles in the path of future financing volume. Said he: "Something could be done by Congress about these two unsound methods of taxation which in effect offer immediate cash prizes for the conduct of one's business and personal affairs in a manner which otherwise would be contrary to all rules of prudence and common sense...
...education in the larger social and philosophical sense, its effect on democracy, its definition. Such a lack of emphasis, though not a fundamental weakness to the organization of the School, has sent a few of the best students to other colleges for teachers, like Columbia or Chicago, which offer a more comprehensive program...