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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anti-Salooners. "The strategy we should employ today is to arouse our people and get them into the fight. Get the church people at the bat. Let them have their innings. . . . The Anti-Saloon League and the W. C. T. U. have never been and never will be supergovernment.* But we have said to the people that the time has come to take our government out of the hands of the bootleggers and put it back where it belongs." So said Superintendent Francis Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League last month. Last week there were rumblings among Anti-Salooners...
...National Industrial Conference wanted to know the relation of small to big businesses in the U. S. Its investigators found, they reported last week, that concerns engaged in manufacturing, mining and commerce employ on the average ten persons each; manufacturing plants average 44.7 each, wholesale houses 14 to 15, retail establishments five to six. Mail order houses, chain stores and department stores handle only 30% of the national business. However, in 1925, one-third of the manufacturing plants produced nine-tenths of the country's manufactured products and employed nearly nine-tenths of the wage-earners in industry. Significance...
Throughout Hungary this outburst of Jew-jostling was repeated, last week, by students at a dozen intermediate schools and two colleges. In Pecs (Peetsh), some Jewish undergraduates of the local college were driven to the extremity of barricading themselves and standing off their tormentors with threats to employ firearms. What could cause so national an outburst of student folly...
More specifically, Article Three of the new pact declares: "In case one of the contracting parties is threatened with war, unprovoked by itself, the other party shall employ all its most efficacious means not only to prevent hostilities but also to secure just satisfaction for the threatened party...
...constitutes in Chemistry, more than in other sciences, the active work of the students engaged upon its study, will continue throughout the Reading Period, according to G. P. Baxter '96, Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry and chairman of the department. Four courses, all of an advanced nature, will employ it at mid-years. They are Chemistry 11, Industrial Chemistry, the single course of the four which is not primarily for graduates alone: Chemistry 6. Physical Chemistry: Chemistry 10, Gas Analysis: and Chemistry 16. Advanced Inorganic Chemistry...