Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...deaf-mute's stumbling down a dark country lane on a foggy night. So far, our policy in the present European war has been just as dim and uncertain. There have been a few specific actions on the part of the Roosevelt Administration, but no one knows just what basic policy is behind them. If the 1940 campaign doesn't throw light on the situation, it will be just about impossible to vote intelligently...
...relief bill to end unemployment in the legal profession and for no other purpose." The independent Brookings Institution in Washington found that the bill ". . . would seriously retard and hamper the processes of government . . . leave the administration of a statute open to obstructive and dilatory tactics . . . [be] contrary to our basic concepts of the judicial process . . . demoralizing Government departments, destroying their efficiency, delaying the transaction of Government business to an excessive and intolerable degree, and greatly enhancing the cost of government...
...roads. Items (in 1932): Tractor-trailers (more than five tons) paid $832 in taxes, should have paid only $545 of road costs. School busses paid only $77, should have paid $5 more. Passenger cars paid $26, hit their responsibility on the nose. Underlying these estimates was a basic assumption: that since all roads have "general social and economic" as well as commercial transport uses, vehicle owners should pay only a part of their cost...
Expounding his basic philosophy that nothing is certain in the world except change, Howard Baker, instructor in English and one of our rising poets, will give a reading of his works at 4:30 today in the Widener Poetry Room...
...subsequently develop into or result in the reconstruction of this economics system. We agree with Dr. Conant that a reconstruction of our educational system is imperative; but, on the other hand, we believe this can only be achieved as an aftermath of a much more necessary and much more basic economic reconstruction...