Word: shirking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...removal of the rule providing that higher police officers must first pass through the ranks; greater insistence on the educational qualifications of candidates: establishment of a "police college" to train promising younger men on the force. ''It seems to me impossible.'' he wrote, "longer to shirk the problem of how to obtain a steady supply of the best brains from every available source...
...Civil War pensions as a "bad principle." Senator Robinson tried to discredit N. E. L. by showing that Lobbyist Bullitt also represented Associated Gas & Electric, "one of the most reckless units in the power trust." The Indianian insisted N. E. L. was being supported by wealthy taxpayers trying to shirk their share of War costs...
...connection with your editorial on that subject. You are, it seems to me, correct in asserting that the administration of any system adopted has no bearing upon the question on the whole, any arrangement which is reasonable can probably be worked. But it does appear to me that you shirk the one primary issue, an issue to which you allude casually among your list of objections and one of whose importance it is hard to convince those who criticize the present arrangement. This important point is the bearing of eating in the House upon the creation of a corporate personality...
...chiefly to a speech by Speaker Garner. He had held aloof the week before when a "soak-the-rich" coalition knocked out the Sales Tax and left the house groggy and disorganized. The Press howled its disapproval. Securities declined. Government bonds dropped. Was the House, after all. going to shirk the duty of increasing taxation sufficiently to balance the Budget? It appeared possible until Speaker Garner in his old grey suit went down into the well and began to address the House...
Within these limits, the preceptorial system will have to find its place, in order that the slow man will not be crowded with work, or the bright man allowed to shirk. Even where little independent reading is done, it will help in choosing fields of concentration. It is to be hoped that the system will be allowed to grow slowly, and to be considered in the main as a privilege, and not either a right or a rule...