Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...form of a crisp White Paper of 19 closely-printed pages the House of Commons received last week a fateful invitation from the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin. In a general way the Prime Minister invited a confidence vote of which the result might be to spend $1,500,000,000 as rapidly as possible for further Armament, or to spend immensely more, should His Majesty's Government think best. The White Paper was a bid to be accorded virtual carte blanche-billions for Armament, and no questions asked. In the words of the paper: "Any attempt to estimate...
...week answered by Squire Baldwin with a blunt refusal to part with one iota of his prerogatives. But the Prime Minister did say he would appoint a Deputy to act for him the greater part of trie time as Chairman of the Council of Imperial Defense which will largely spend the Armament billions. Who this Deputy will be, Mr. Baldwin did not yet choose to tell the House...
...against "unprecedented" U. S. military expenditures. Also last week, by an amoeba-like proliferation which pacifist and religious movements often undergo, part of the personnel of the National Peace Conference made ready to launch an ambitious two-year Emergency Peace Campaign. In its first year the campaign plans to spend between $500,000 and $1,000,000, of which it has raised $150,000. Acting as treasurer of the campaign is the American Friends Service Committee, that fortunate Quaker board to which Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt has given the $90,000 proceeds of her radio talks. Mrs. Roosevelt will...
...bringing up the case of the man who prefers to spend all his hours in Widener, Mr. Jones questions the advisability of Harvard's 'athletics for all' policy, and, even deeper, the advisability of athletics in college at all. One must admit the truth of Mr. Jones' point that what fame Harvard may have has come through its intellectual preeminence. One might ask Mr. Jones, however, if the fame of the college, rather than the happiness of the men it educates, is the true goal it should strive...
...take sufficient exercise. It is logical, however, that if the plant be functioning at its maximum efficiency, and there be teams and coaches in as many sports as possible, Harvard would stand a better chance of producing more well-grounded healthy men. To the man who wants to spend all of his spare hours in Widener or Mallinckrodt the ten dollar levy would indubitably be a hardship; but the sacrifice of this small minority seems the least possible one for the good of the whole. Beef athletes are no more desired in predominance than brain athletes. Harvard points...