Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plan and has been lambasting it vigorously ever since. At the National Press Club in Washington, bar gossips predicted that Out Waltman, who will get $20,000 a year as compared with In Michelson's $25,000, would prove a well qualified mudslinger...
...question of how independence would affect the islands. Publication of the committee's findings is due next month, but meanwhile, Japanese doings in China have given Filipinos a new reason to wonder what may become of them without U. S. protection. Last January Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposed a plan whereby Philippine trade preferences would be reduced more gradually, ending in 1960 instead of 1946. Last month High Commissioner Paul Vories McNutt broadcast his view that Philippine independence be postponed indefinitely. Since independence has been Philippine President Manuel Luis Quezon's battle cry all his life, he obviously could...
Last week current trend toward postponing Philippine independence was indicated again. In Washington Franklin Delano Roosevelt made public an exchange of messages between himself and President Quezon, which showed they were at least completely agreed on the Roosevelt plan to substitute gradual reduction of trade preferences for the abrupt reduction called for by the McDuffie-Tydings Act. The plan will be included in the committee's report, considered by Congress next year...
...National Association of Manufacturers quickly wired its approval of the plan. "Called in to help," a representative of Carl Byoir & Associates, Manhattan pressagents, began to send out press releases from a Troy hotel suite. Meanwhile, the Taxcentinels set up a booth on the campus, sold pennies to all comers. First purchaser ($5 worth) was Rensselaer's 59-year-old president, neat, energetic Dr. William Otis Hotchkiss, onetime farmer, geologist, consulting engineer and chairman of the Wisconsin State Highway Commission. Said sage Dr. Hotchkiss: "A sure sign of spring. . . . I think it is a laudable purpose for the students...
...produce to their gods-by way of the priests. Since Anglo-Saxon times the Church of England has been partially supported by arbitrary tithes, now gradually being liquidated. "God's acres" stem from such tithing. For eight years a systematized form of tithing, the Lord's Acre Plan, has flourished under the guidance of the Farmers' Federation of North Carolina. Its director is a Northern Presbyterian, Rev. Dumont Clarke, onetime Y. M. C. A. man in India, onetime religious director at Lawrenceville School...