Word: recommended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opportunity to do a man-sized job reforming and modernizing the State Government. If it had taken that opportunity in full, as Iowa took it, State Government would have had fewer critics today. Last year Governor Arthur Harry Moore asked Princeton University to survey the New Jersey Government, recommend improvements. Put in charge of the survey was Dr. Harold Willis Dodds, Princeton's famed political expert. For three months he and 20 assistants combed the State bureaucracy, turned in on Jan. 1 a 125,000 word report showing how New Jersey could cut expenses $7,657,000. up revenue...
Bankers and brokers therefore practically ceased making any representations about stocks and bonds. Salesmen twiddled their thumbs. They could take orders to buy & sell (and thus the stock exchanges continued at full blast), but they hesitated to recommend a stock or urge the purchase of a bond if it involved use of the mails or interstate commerce. Of course they advised old clients whom they could trust, for it was the racketeer, the sue-&-settle people, who would save every scrap of a firm's written matter waiting for a chance to trip it up. that Wall Street feared...
...laboratory work, unlike the lectures, has no good features to recommend it. It is announced as requiring at least six hours per week. Actually, it consumes anywhere from eight to twelve, depending on the student and the particular assignment; the yellow oilcloth frequently seen hanging from the windows in the Houses contains, not bottles, but a defunct dogfish belonging to some individual who is studying Comparative Anatomy. The laboratory facilities are insufficient to handle the number taking the course, and the room is always crowded. Also, because of the numbers in the course, dissections and drawings must be completed...
...line of least resistance will obviously recommend the Center to the new American student in Paris, and will make it easy for him to practice group insulation. Thus a very large part of the value of study abroad must disappear, for one may hear mere lectures delivered in French as well in Cambridge as in Paris. Educational critics have long attacked the self-consciousness of the American student abroad, and his unfortunate tendency to establish an exclusive colony of friends in a single pension. Such a project as the present one, which contemplates the enshrinement of this separatism...
Last week the White House passed a sentence of death on this familiar immunity tag regularly appended in tiny type at the bottom of stock promotion circulars. True to his Party platform. President Roosevelt sent one more special message to Congress in which he said: "I recommend . . . legislation for Federal supervision of traffic in investment securities in interstate commerce. . . . The public in the past has sustained severe losses through practices neither ethical nor honest on the part of many persons and corporations selling securities. Of course, the Federal Government cannot and should not take any action which might be construed...