Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prominent place in his chosen field. From 1915 to 1920 he was a trustee and member of the executive committee of the American Academy. As founder and chairman of the National Conference on Instruction in Landscape Architecture he took a leading place in extending the teaching of that subject...
...suggested, should give him a good safe ground job. Mr. Curtiss, a-twinkle, replied that the situation would probably be met, in view of press reports that Mr. Hoover was going to appoint Col. Lindbergh to his sub-cabinet in charge of civil aeronautics. Mr. Hoover promptly changed the subject of conversation...
...theory the court guards the bankrupt's assets, with all the moral rigor of the U. S. behind it. In practice the judge appoints a supposedly disinterested and trustworthy person as receiver who does the actual work, subject only to final court review. The Federal law fixes the service charges a receiver may make upon the assets, ranging from 6% on $500 or less, down to 1% on $10,000 or more. In effect the creditors pay the receiver from funds they would otherwise get. Thus receiverships are profitable political plums whereby many a lawyer swells his income...
...bill has become effective [TIME, Feb. 18] a further effort will be made before long to reach an agreement between the principal naval powers of the world for the limitation of naval armaments. As long as that bill was under discussion any proposal to renew conversations on this vital subject might have been interpreted in the U. S. as an attempt to interfere with the passage of the bill...
Upshot. It was doubtful whether anything would result from all the congressional speeches and resolutions, if only because the Federal Reserve Board itself was believed to be aghast at the thought of its delicate and vital functions being subject to congressional disturbance at such a critical moment...