Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stood close to Mr. Wallace in the Department of Agriculture-Assistant Secretary Tugwell, Columbia professor, and AAA Counsel Jerome Frank, disciple of Felix Frankfurter. They favored restricting production, holding down the profits of processors and distributors. Their aim was not just recovery for the farmers but a radical step: permanent "socialization" of the processing and distributing business. When they could not get their way with Mr. Peek, Mr. Tugwell and allies set about maneuvering...
...elementary and too dogmatic, for the man who has learned to the stage where progress must come by asking questions, of men and of books, is not satisfied by an orderly and unilateral presentation. If the degree is awarded on general examination as well as on credits, one important step has been made. But only when the courses become series of lectures to which no one is bidden and on which all their auditors are independently examined, with the thoroughness which the relation between the subject matter and their own field would dictate, can the tutorial system come into...
When Signor Mussolini rattles his poniard and makes large, inclusive gestures, the world makes a mental note of it and passes on, becoming less and less perturbed by each bombastic reiteration. But when he takes a definite national step, the world cocks an attentive ear. This time The Leader has planned a reduction, for the whole populace of wages and the cost of living, presumably simultaneously, both of the items to be lowered by ten or twelve per cent. Faced with severe international competition in the shrinking world market, Italy is forced, says Mussolini, to lower costs drastically. And this...
...sound out the opinion of the students in their respective courses and to subject the matter of printed lecture notes to discussion within their departments. Their agreement did not commit these men to the adoption of the proposed innovation but merely insured for it serious departmental consideration, the only step that can be taken from without the departments themselves...
...methods have grown less rudimentary. Last autumn, he "consecrated"' the German Press to Nazi service with a law that made it a crime to practice journalism in Germany except as a member of a nation-wide closed shop. Last week, Nazi control of the Press went one step further when it was announced that Germany's two biggest news services, the Telegraphen-Union and Wolff's Telegraph Bureau, had merged because of ''recent economic developments in the German Press...