Word: readjusters
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...needed is not more college graduates but fewer and better ones." 2) By accepting aid in an emergency, colleges will be demoralized into permanent dependence on the Government. "I therefore regard this procedure as little less than deplorable. I think it would be much better to request that colleges readjust themselves at once to a new economic situation, pare their budgets accordingly and go on a reduced enrollment basis...
...year to help Chinese finances have ceased remittances. Last year China's trade showed an excess of imports amounting to $200,000,000 and if this continues a few more years the Chinese Republic will be bankrupt." Then came the protest proper: "China ought first to readjust her debts before any more money is loaned. Unless such a readjustment is made an added burden will be placed on the Chinese which will tend to delay unification of the country and the attainment of order and prosperity. . . . This is what Japan cannot countenance as she realizes that it devolves upon...
Last week for the first time the 73rd Congress turned Indian-giver on President Roosevelt. Last year, in the first flush of the New Deal, it had delegated to him enormous executive power to purge the veterans' pension roll and readjust government wages as a means of balancing the ordinary budget. Last week, under the lash of two of the most potent lobbies in Washington, it snatched back that power from the White House and returned pension reform to the pork barrel...
...hall rates in that year because the general price level of food had fallen correspondingly. Now, however, when dining hall rates are at their lowest, general food prices are rising sharply, and even threaten a net loss to the University from operation of the dining halls until it can readjust its rates in accordance with the new price level...
...plan: to weed out about 3,000 and reduce the present personnel to 9,000); 3) cancel Government contracts, including air and ocean mail subsidies, and remake them on better terms; 4) eliminate the year's pay now given to surplus graduates from the Naval Academy; 5) readjust downward the extra flying pay now allowed Army, Navy and Marine aviators...