Word: decentered
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...Tried to ignore the clamoring, rioting unemployed but had to listen to their parliamentary champion, "Grandpa" George Lansbury, Leader of the Labor Party, who shouted, "I demand that the damnable 'means test'* be abolished and every man given a chance of decent existence...
...This is no genuine working class movement," said Sir Charles. "They don't go around throwing stones at policemen. It is the Communists who have gone to work among them. . . . We know many of the tough customers and unfortunately they have got at the decent poor...
...that the Harvard team will be heavily handicapped in the single game with Yale. Last year the lightweights were beaten 14 to 0 by Yale when both teams had seasons of the same length, but with less than three weeks of practice the Crimson chances of making a decent showing are negligible, against a strong Blue team with a regular schedule of four games. The Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports should realize that a severe beating by Yale will not quell the desire for 150-pound football, but will only result in a vociferous demand for a return...
...eleven housing projects around New York City have been completed under the Board, representing 1,918 apartments costing $10,161.074. Four of them were co-operative undertakings by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Ten of them are making money. All of them have supplied tenement dwellers with decent housing. But New York's slums still teem...
...also apply to services-which could presumably be rendered only in the form of manufacturing operations, transport and the like. Mr. Andrews refers to the British navy. This was built by British labour, in British time -neither of which commodities are acceptable to America as debt payment. Further, all decent bankruptcy laws provide that the debtor may retain the means of self-preservation. With regard to Mr. Andrews' second point, surely a country which has taxed itself far beyond what any American can comprehend, in an attempt to pay, in a currency which has been at a premium, money...