Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Additional cost: $60,000,000. The House, through its leaders, demanded that the 154,000 veterans with "presumptive" Wartime injuries also be put back on the pension rolls. Additional cost: $160,000,000. The President agreed, provided he was allowed to re-examine the "presumptive" list and weed out all veterans who could not definitely prove that their disabilities were connected with their War service. Additional cost $80,000,000. The House was willing but only on condition that the President would give the veteran the benefit of doubt in borderline cases. Additional cost: $100,000,000. The President agreed...
High jump--Won by Badman (A),5ft. 10in.; second, A. H. Weed (H), 5ft. 9in.; third, tie between P. C. Tiffany (H), L. N. Stevens (H), J. C. Precut...
...bill as riders to give the President even greater powers as an economizer. Authority was sought for the President to: 1) retire Federal employes after 30 years' civil service and leave their jobs vacant; 2) furlough indefinitely on half pay any number of Army officers (the plan: to weed out about 3,000 and reduce the present personnel to 9,000); 3) cancel Government contracts, including air and ocean mail subsidies, and remake them on better terms; 4) eliminate the year's pay now given to surplus graduates from the Naval Academy; 5) readjust downward the extra flying...
...first day of the University handicap Track Meet yesterday, G. H. Bullwinkle 1L crossed the finish line two feet ahead of Arthur Foote, II '33 in the mile run. Shaun Kelly '36, won the quarter-mile race with a handicap of 18 yards, A. H. Weed '36 took first place in the high jump with a four-inch handicap, and a jump of 5 feet, 11 inches, and F. B. Johnson '36, with a large handicap, defeated J. H. Dean '34, and J. J. Healey '34 in the shot...
...flayed attempts at national self-sufficiency ("all seek to sell but not to buy"), manifested in retaliatory tariffs, embargoes, import quotas, export subsidies, and exchange restrictions which "throttle business enterprise." First objective at London is a tariff truce against more rate uppings. After that, attempts will be made to weed out such quota restrictions as Austria puts on tires and shoes, Belgium on sugar and silk knit goods, Germany on lard and butter. Last week France, sensing a turn in the tide, planned to lift quota restrictions on U. S. radios, asparagus, apples and pears-a move strongly backed...