Word: abolishes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that role. Notorious are Mussolini's secret conferences with Jugoslav Premier Nintchitch, his furtherance of a Roumanian loan at Rome, his diplomatic feelers into the Eastern Balkans, notably signalized last week by the bestowal upon Greek Dictator-President Pangalos of the Italian Great Cross. 2) Proposals to abolish inter-Little Entente customs control. 3) The perennial "Hungarian question" (i.e., Hungarians are perpetually talking about monarchy and hatching means to burst the encirclement of Hungary on three sides by the Little Entente). As the three Premiers sat down to deliberate these issues a telegram was handed to Czechoslovak Benes...
...profess an aversion for "the an-achronistic chariot of war" and disclaim "any jingoistic faith in huge national armaments"; then you propose to abolish these evils by increasing the number who can drive the anachronistic chariot!. You admire the prospective course for the "idental discipline" it will afford, yet how long has the CRIMSON stood for discipline of the absolute, goose-step variety in any field...
...student movement, is largely a following of academic leadership. President Aydelotte denounces the classroom, Professor Meiklejohn shouts, "Away with all lectures." President Frank says that the college is sick and proposes an isolation ward where it can be taken apart and examined and experimented on; Secretary Flexner wants to abolish the college altogether at university centres. Profesor Johnston Ross denounces compulsory chapel. Professor William B. Otis denounces compulsory drills. Professor J. E. Kirpatrick would abolish the college Presidency. But it students propose any reforms in these fields, we call it a student movement...
...hope these actions mark the beginning of a concerted effort to abolish compulsory military training from every public school and college in Massachusetts...
...Debated the Watson-Parker bill to abolish the Railroad Labor board, to establish instead a series of arbitration boards for settling disputes...