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...Turner's great book, "The Frontier in American History", which appeared some forty years ago, revolutionized historical writing. Not only did it establish the frontier as the chief factor in moulding life in the New World, but also it emphasized the social and economic aspects of history. This novel conception did much to discredit the old school of writers that had considered the past as a series of wars and political campaigns. The work of Dr. Turner, more than any other single cause, put American History on a scientific basis. He had the rare combination of fertility in ideas coupled...
...note--It was felt that in order to establish Mr. Hadley's complete disinterestedness the reader should have some knowledge of the qualifications peculiarly fitting him to be the author of his book, quoted above. This fragmentary biography is taken from the American...
Appearing before a meeting of Legislative Committee on Election Laws in the State House yesterday afternoon, President Lowell spoke favoring a bill to establish a pre-primary convention system, and critizing the present method of nominating candidates for public office...
...Treaty had become "inapplicable or ineffective." He went back to the Washington Conference of 1921-22 to recall that Belgium, Britain, France. Italy. Japan, The Netherlands, Portugal and the U. S. then and there had joined with China in this pact to respect Chinese sovereignty and integrity and to establish the "Open Door" to China trade as a diplomatic fact. Wrote the Secretary to the Senator: "At the time this treaty was signed it was known that China was engaged in an attempt to develop the free institutions of a self-governing republic . . . that she would require many years...
...would permit an expenditure of close to $1,000,000,000 to complete all vessels now building, modernize all capital ships, equip all carriers with aircraft, replace all overage craft and add enough new tonnage to make the U. S. fleet second to none. Its prime purpose was to establish in U. S. law a naval building policy which President Hoover, for reasons of economy, has been reluctant to pursue. Senator Hale made much of the argument that his bill, if passed, would improve U. S. bargaining power at the World Disarmament Conference now sitting at Geneva. This view impressed...