Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other U. S. roads facing similar crises, Burt Wheeler has more drastic medicine in mind. Last week his committee reported favorably a bill to create a special railroad reorganization court which would permit recapitalizations of bankrupt roads only upon a basis of "expectable future earnings"-the average for the twelve years prior to the year in which the railroad went bankrupt. That day at the White House Franklin Roosevelt seconded the measure...
This week in a startling book, Medicine At the Crossroads,† with a warp of drastic criticism and a moderate woof of diplomacy, Dr. Bernheim ripped into the medical profession. Considering himself a "terrible old reactionary," he offered plans for medicine's modernization. Among his suggestions...
NLRB and the Wagner Act sorely need a butter patter. Up to now, NLRB has applied a drastic statute so literally that it has accumulated a fine roster of enemies. By his own inclination and by instruction from the President, Dr. Leiserson proposes to continue literal enforcement of collective bargaining, minus the harsh words now characteristic of NLRB. If his placating presence fails to smooth down A. F. of L., Business and hostile Congressmen, the Administration may even enlarge NLRB, or as a last resort sacrifice Chairman Warren Madden and co-Member Edwin Smith in order to save the Wagner...
...know, the Faculty went along half-heartedly, somewhat ashamed, I think, to recognize the situation and also somewhat afraid to take drastic action because of the publicity angle," he continued...
...Bolivia--President German Busch today abolished constitutional guarantees, dissolved the Congress and set up a totalitarian dictatorship in a drastic move to cope with internal economic and political conditions that threatened Bolivia with bankruptcy and revolution...