Word: provisionally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The regular Republicans grumped about overburdening the Civil Service Commission with unnecessary work and prayed that the House would knock this "reform" provision out of the bill. It remained for a Democratic Senator, South Carolina's Blease, to put into words their true sentiments about this innovation.
¶C Last week President Hoover made his first use of the flexible provision of the tariff law. He proclaimed duty increases on milk, cream, flaxseed, window glass.
Hoover Increases. President Hoover sought to ease the tension by exercising the flexible provision of the present tariff law and raising the duty on three farm commodities. He raised: 1) Milk from 2½ cents to 3¾ cents per gallon (the new bill-5 cents per gallon); 2) Cream...
Hereby has Harvard, with a reputation for doing consistently right by its faculty, set a precedent that the rest of the universities on the Carnegie list must follow. Comparatively low salaries, painfully slow promotion, and constant demands for more and more esoteric research have already brought the teaching profession into...
The necessity and humanity of this old-age provision for men who have given their best to education without sufficient pecuniary remuneration to provide for their own retirements scarcely needs further exposition. Nor do we need to dwell on the inconvenience, not to mention the cruelty of making professors with...