Word: recommendation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week. He is the great Liberal barrister who is Chairman of the Indian Statutory Commission (TIME, Jan. 9 et seq.). The Seven Wise Commissioners have now completed their first visit to India, a visit which has been punctuated by numerous riots and demonstrations against them. Their mission is to recommend, after much further study, what additional measure of sovereignty shall be extended to Indians. Last week Sir John struck a significant keynote when he said: "The Commission will recommend no sweeping changes in the Indian form of Government. The Indian people are not yet ready for a large measure...
Secretary Mellon's new points were two: 1) $201,115,000 was the maximum reduction he now could recommend; 2) $182,000,000 would be the maximum reduction if Congress should appropriate $30,000,000 for flood-relief*-an item not yet budgeted. His points made, Secretary Mellon departed for Bermuda, taking his son Paul Mellon and five of Paul's undergraduate Yale classmates...
...Chapel Committee aims to fulfill three main functions. These are: to cooperate with Professor E. C. Moore and the Board of Preachers and recommend for future years those speakers who have been most popular with the students; to usher at the Sunday morning services and make arrangements for faculty reservations; and to stimulate by individual effort the student interest in chapel. Accordingly the committee has kept a record of the most interesting preachers; it has provided the ushers for the Sunday services, and for the special Christmas carol services; and kept certain pews reserved for faculty members until five minutes...
...while the joint authorities of both the primary and secondary schools could profitably unite in making out the examination for the rest of the students. The best children from every point of view should be given preference over those who merely have superficial preparation. American colleges through experience could recommend this policy...
...flood control bill reported to the House last fortnight called for estimated expenditures of $473,000,000 with no money levied from the States benefited. President Coolidge, whose recommendation had been for a $296,400,000 program with 20% borne by the States, began the week by calculating out loud that the Committee's bill, of which the provisions were so sweeping that they might apply to every stream between the Appalachians and the Rockies, would triple itself before the work was finished, costing the U. S. more than anything it ever undertook except the last War. After this...