Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expensive toward the farm vote. When economy-minded Senators proposed, in committee, to shave a flat 10% or 5% from all items in the House's $835,000,000 Agriculture supply bill, the committee shied. Such a move might be all right, they said, if applied by the whole Senate to each & every supply bill regardless, but to single out Agriculture for such treatment struck them as unfair and politically unwise,† Not only that, but the committeemen jeopardized all economizing to date by voting into the bill $378,000,000 more for farmers...
...most people this seems to be merely a gross grab for power-terrific cost to Miner Lewis' own followers as well as to the whole U. S. The unreconstructed New York Sun for once thundered for what appeared to be a majority: "THE CALLOUS SELFISHNESS OF JOHN L. LEWIS. When a union calls a nationwide strike . . . that is bound to affect millions " . . that union must be prepared to submit a strong case to the public. . . . What sort of case has John L. Lewis? ... He is willing to see 400,000 miners quit work and millions of the public deprived...
Those living in boarding houses spend an average of $40.00 a year, according to the poll returns. The average expenditure in the House is about the same as the upperclassmen as a whole, $18.00. The average annual amount spent by commuters for tutoring services...
...letter further stated: "We whole-heartedly support the belief that House membership should be granted on the basis of grades and outside activities--that is, strictly on the merit system...
...each term. These reviews should be highly beneficial in coordinating the work of the period just completed and would go far towards remov- ing the pre-examination panic and rush to tutoring schools. Reviews are so important in the understanding of any course as a whole that they should be offered by the instructors themselves