Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...done to regulate the influx of foreign funds ("hot money," he called it) whose sudden withdrawal might cause a stockmarket panic. No, he still did not think any new taxes would be necessary. Yes, he would not be surprised if John Gilbert Winant, who resigned during the campaign, should return to head the Social Security Board.* No, he had not given any thought to filling vacant posts in his official family. On only two points was he at all definite: He urged the U.S. people this year as always to celebrate Thanksgiving on the last Thursday in November. He expressed...
...dead letter, as there is no longer a central agency to supervise storing the books, and only in the rarest instances are students awake to the possibility of protesting their grade and demanding a check, especially when the summer exodus has taken place. Thus the tradition of not returning blue books has become a smoke-screen behind which teachers may hide in order to avoid discussing grades with the few earnest individuals who inevitably return to find out why they...
This scholarship which may be divided among two or three students or go to a single recipient, awaits the return of Mrs. Ames from Europe next month before its allocations...
...Though return to the old rules was not advocated by too tremendous a majority, 792 to 433, voters rejected revision and standardization of these rules by 692 to 412. The Oxford card system found little favor as a method of revision, being snowed under by almost a 3 to 1 count...
...vote--792 to 433--for a return to the old rules is consistent when compared to the fact that no revision of those rules was wanted. This would imply a "states-rights" belief that each House should decide for itself...