Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passing of Oliphant coincided with other equally important changes in the Treasury. Taxation for revenue is now Franklin Roosevelt's urgent need and last week the Senate confirmed the nomination of the man who will have to plan it, a newer, younger friend of Henry Morgenthau...
...effect, the plan was to improve the balance of trade (difference between exports and imports) by reducing imports. Applied in practice for the first time fortnight ago, exchange control appeared virtually to bar all imports from Japan (perhaps in retaliation for Japan's refusal to buy New Zealand wool), and cut other imports from 20% to 80%. British imports were cut least. The policy had the same effect as extremely high tariffs, except that restraining pressure was put on local importers rather than on foreign businesses...
...five years since the plan was inaugurated there have been 102 National Scholars from the states of California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Washington and Wisconsin...
...Through the National Scholarship plan we are continuing to assist a large number of boys who come from the smaller towns and rural sections," Dean Hanford said concerning the announcement, "and a considerable portion of the recipients belong to families who are unable to furnish anything beyond a small sum toward their college education...
...defeat with an admirable grace that the Harvard athletic community may well be proud of. His thoughts in defeat did not consist of balancing the half-dozen if's of the meet, rather did he praise the men on his team who fought to the last for him and plan to build up for the future the men who failed him to some extent...