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...Neither advance nor retard lasting economic recovery...
Illinois's New Dealing Kent Keller proposed to retitle Mr. Walter's measure: "The lawyers' emergency relief bill to end unemployment in the legal profession and for no other purpose." The independent Brookings Institution in Washington found that the bill ". . . would seriously retard and hamper the processes of government . . . leave the administration of a statute open to obstructive and dilatory tactics . . . [be] contrary to our basic concepts of the judicial process . . . demoralizing Government departments, destroying their efficiency, delaying the transaction of Government business to an excessive and intolerable degree, and greatly enhancing the cost of government...
Thus, the small number of portages required will be for short distances only and never will necessitate a climb of more than 15 feet. Between dams the river is surprisingly level; hence, little swift water is expected to retard the upstream voyage...
...construed either as a goodwill gesture or as another, specific challenge. In tones of warmest welcome they invited the Secretary of the Treasury to make good, after reviewing the income tax returns that will come in March 15, on his promise to ask for reduction of taxes which retard Business (TIME, March...
Superbly acted, with English titles to translate its polyglot dialogue, Grand Illusion's principal defect is that an occasional exaggerated attention to detail tends to retard its pace. It is notable for restoring Erich von Stroheim (a top-priced director until a combination of extravagant pictures and his own erratic temperament cut short his Hollywood career) to the screen in a more sympathetic role than those he used to play. Good shot: the moment at the dress rehearsal of a prison show when the first member of the cast tries on a woman's dress...