Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is what is embraced by the President's proclamation fixing the value of the dollar at about 59 cents as compared the dollar at about 59 cents as compared to its former gold content. Broadly speaking. It means that Mr. Roosevelt has set an upper limit of 60 cents-indeed, Congress did that for him--and he has now fixed a lower limit of 59.06 to be exact, so that foreign governments may know there is less than one per cent of variation upward that Mr. Roosevelt can make and there is slightly over nine per cent that...
...perhaps almost too obvious to call attention to the change that this will bring about in the face of the University as a whole. There will no longer be those who enjoy a scholarship at Harvard on the strength of ability to get A's: the upper seventh of the student-body will consist--as will the faculty to an even larger degree--of a group of original thinkers, the balance of those attracted by the principles and glamer of the former, and the rest of us can go elsewhere...
...public relations. Mr. Roosevelt's appeal is to the heart as well as the mind. The success of the New Deal depends entirely upon public support. When Mr. Roosevelt becomes "just another President" the fires of patriotism and sacrifice will die, and expediency and self-interest gain the upper hand...
...highest marks possible," the President feels that this method of awarding scholarships would "tend to diminish greatly the emphasis placed on grades obtained in courses. In this same direction the Report reveals that it might be a wise step forward to abolish the rank list itself for the upper classes. Modification such as this would of course be more in line with the shift of emphasis away from course grades and towards the development of the general examination and tutorial system the President feels...
...rehabilitation -a program that is currently the most important in State politics. It was therefore quite as essential for him to reach a compromise as for Mayor LaGuardia. And having reached it, it was even more essential that he get the measure passed. This was no easy job. The Upper House has a Democratic majority of one, but they are mostly Tammanymen who waged a bitter fight against Lehman (& Roosevelt) two years ago. The Lower House is Republican but two factions of Repub licans spent eight days quarreling over the election of a clerk. Finally on the ninth...