Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unquestionably these measures have borne fruit. Whether it is advisable to stop there, however, is an entirely different question. Recent changes in English A bring this problem into full focus. This fall an additional "escape" was offered to "upper seventh" Freshmen who did not pass their college boards with seventy-five or over. If this year's results are a reliable indication, this escape was little more than a knothole, for few passed. Further, the change itself may be considered as a confession of weakness; if the course could stand on its own feet there would be less anxicty...
...Governor Landon is an earnest man; in nothing is he more in earnest than peace. He proposes no sure-fire panaceas for complicated problems; that is not his forte. But he sees little use in being a kite tied to the League whirligig; he cannot envision "a war to stop war". Concretely, he proposes the greatest possible use of arbitration, lower tariffs, and taking of profits out of war. Further, he believes in neutrality and a pacific policy at all times, not hardened by all-embracive legislation into a glove which will not fit when war actually breaks out. Governor...
...taxes, the taxes that all of us pay toward the cost of government of all kinds. Well, I know something of taxes. For three long years I have been going up & down this country preaching that government-Federal and state and local-costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching. . . . I propose to you, my friends, and through you to the nation, that government of all kinds, big and little, be made solvent and that the example be set by the President of the United States and his Cabinet...
...forcing her to appear at a Manhattan Jefferson Day dinner attended by President Roosevelt, Warner Brothers had violated her $3,000-a-week contract, claimed Cinemactress Bette Davis in a packed London courtroom of the King's Bench Division, where her U. S. employers were suing to stop her from fulfilling a $50,000 British film engagement. "As this contract stands," pleaded her lawyer, "Miss Davis could not become a waitress in a restaurant or an assistant in a hair dresser's shop in the wilds of Africa. . . ." Observed Sir Patrick Hastings, bewigged barrister for Vice President Jack...
...clumsy persistence in trying to formulate stop-gap measures to replace laws ignominiously thrown out by the Supreme Court is typical of his underhand methods. If he had sufficient courage to brave the political blast, he would come out in favor of a constitutional amendment to legalize Hot Oil, Guffey Coal, and A.A.A. The people could then endorse or reject his theories of government and would be able to decide for themselves whether or not they wanted a planned economy and governmental regulation or industry. These fundamental issues, which differ widely from ideals that Americans have hitherto cherished, must...