Word: readjusting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...will be the problem of the proposed conference to readjust three results of the depression,--restricted budgets, increasing enrollment of students, and growing numbers of unemployed teachers,--to the best possible advantage of the community. In all fairness to the latter, it must be stated that in almost every instance education has been the last public service to have its appropriations reduced. And it is not the economy which is to be criticized but the features of the educational system which have suffered most from that economy. For in many instances, the physical adjuncts remain in full force, untouched...
...excited at this time about foreign political debts. Because the dollar is tremendously dear in terms of commodities is no reason, except to hardheaded foreign financiers and governments, and U. S. owners of foreign second mortgages which they hope to make first mortgages, at this time to cancel or readjust these debts to the tune of Depression prices and bankrupt business. So far as prices are concerned, it would seem that in a 62-year swing, foreign countries would have an opportunity to pay their debts at an average price dollar, and no doubt, when things take a different turn...