Word: movements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is no more romantic history perhaps in all Europe than that of the Slavic peoples who, about the seventh century after Christ, began a considerable movement into the region northeast of the Adriatic. They were divided into various small tribes, and in the earlier ages most of the them were under the more or less nominal rule of the Avars, Greeks, Franks, Magyars and others. They occupied, and their descendants occupy, a solid block of territory, but they have divided into three parts, that have had extraordinarily little to do with each other. This is due in part...
...advice given by Mr. E.A. de Lima, president of the Battery Park National Bank of New York, in a recent interview, Mr. de Lima, who has been serving as the chairman of the United States Sugar Board, is known on Wall Street as a leader in the movement to establish firmer commercial relations with the South American countries...
...exchange in South America, Mr. de Lima replied: "The dollar exchange can be firmly established in South America in two ways: first, by establishing American banks in South America; second, by passing Federal Reserve laws allowing the Federal Reserve banks to rediscount South American commercial paper. At present a movement for realizing both these conditions is well under...
Those who deplored the loss of the old courses and the letting down of the requirements that foreign literatures be studied will see in the new educational movement a vindication of their oft-expressed fears. But whether the fault be due to what they say it is or not, the colleges will do well to demand of those taking diplomas that they measure up to what the world expects of men and women who have had college opportunities...
...part of a general movement to protect those members of the community who are neither part of the capitalist nor the labor organizations, a middle-class trade union has been formed in New York State. The situation which has given rise to this new movement is easy to understand. Capital and labor have been battling against each other without any regard for the community, prices have soared, everywhere the burden has fallen on the consumer. But a middle-class trade union will only open another antagonism...