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...hundreds of thousands of acres of land were needed to furnish next year's wheat supply, the exact portion of the world best suited for that purpose would be so used. An agricultural army, recruited at whatever wages were necessary to secure the requisite numbers, would move out from the cities in the Spring, perform the necessary work, proceed to another area to do a different kind of work there, etc. Mr. Gillette calculates that an army of 5,000,000 men properly directed could do all the world's farming in six months of the year. There...
...blind Member of Parliament rose to move the second reading of a bill to make blind people of 30 or over eligible for old-age pensions. Hardly had he sat down when there arose a War-maimed ex-warrior to move the second reading of a bill to make compulsory the employment by business firms of a fixed percentage of disabled ex-service men. The House gave second reading to both bills...
...National Woman's Party: "I returned from Europe. Said I to reporters: 'It was embarrassing to hear our Government discussed by foreigners. . . . Some of our Senators are a disgrace. Some of them are not even physically capable of being in the Senate. We women certainly would move to keep invalids out of the Upper House.' " Alvin M. Owsley, attorney of Dallas, onetime National Commander of the American Legion: "The Dallas legion post announced that I would seek the Democratic Vice Presidential nomination, if endorsed by the Texas State Convention. Said I: 'With the help and advice...
...discovery that the United States government, recent sponsor of disarmament, and self-proclaimed opponent of militarism, is sponsor of Citizens Military Training Camps may conceivably give pacifistic minds a shock. What would seem a grotesquely paradoxical situation is in truth merely an excellent and intelligent educational move...
...year. Instead of breaking up on the death of Mr. Nolen, as intimacies in a recent issue of the CRIMSON, Nolen's Tutoring School will continue its work under the same staff of instructors, who now own the school as a corporation. About July 1 the school plans to move from Little Ball, which is owned by Harvard College and will be made a college dormitory, to Manter, Hall, at the corner of the next block, about 100 feet away...