Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quick was Oil Administrator Ickes to point out that this decision invalidated only one small section of the Recovery Act, authorizing the President to forbid shipments of "hot oil" in interstate commerce. It did not invalidate NRA codes, or even the Petroleum Code. Secretary Ickes prepared at once to shift his efforts to control production by using the oil code as his tool. He added however: "I imagine the code's constitutionality will be tested next...
...first ten months of 1934. announced FER Administrator Harry Hopkins last week. States and communities spent $323,890,560 for relief-28.3%, more than in the same period in 1933. Simultaneously Administrator Hopkins moved to shift a still bigger share of the relief burden to their shoulders. Beginning Feb. 1, all "unemployables" will be transferred from Federal to State and community relief rolls...
...complete reorganization of education in the United States, with a shift in its objectives and a complete change of its center of gravity, may, as some persons believe, be highly desirable; but to bring this about by indirection and more or less unintentionally as a result of panic-stricken effort to mitigate through injudicious taxation the effects of a transient economic crisis, or as the result of a merely emotional assault upon the results of thrift and industry, would be a sorry product of our democratic society and one ruinous to some of the highest values which have been built...
...necessary alterations. That some arrangements for commuters should be made is acknowledged. The choice of a place for their activities, if it is to be satisfactory from all points of view, must be made after a careful consideration of what needs and desires are to be fulfilled. To merely shift the commuters from Phillips Brooks House to another equally unsuitable place is evading the problem rather than squarely meeting...
Captain Dick Boys was moved to forward from the pivot post last night, a shift which presages the establishment of Gray as a regular. His height proved of assistance at this position, and he succeeded in caging two baskets and a free throw. Almost everyone on the squad saw action as the M.I.T. quintet wilted beneath the Crimson barrage...