Word: questions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bitter Feeling. But elimination of the liquor question did not entirely preclude bad feeling. Educational requirements for admission to the Bar received major consideration and brought in conflict two belligerent factions, one headed by Dean Lewis of Pennsylvania, the other by Dean Gleason Leonard Archer of the Suffolk Law School (Boston night school). Dean Lewis advocated reaffirming the Association's previous recommendation of a two-year college education prior to law study. Dean Archer charged a "clique" within the Association was attempting to foster a "college monopoly on legal education by outlawing evening law schools." Dean Lewis retorted that...
When you take into consideration the fact that the team made this record under a coach who was serving his first year, then you begin to understand what the latent possibilities of the Peninsula state boys really are. The particular coach in question is a certain Mr. Charles Bachman of Notre Dame fame. Like so many others of his tribe he purports to teach Rockne football, but unlike a great many others of his tribe he really seems to do it. The report is that he has equipped his team with an offense of which the great Knute himself might...
True, the deliberations of the International Economic Conference at Geneva in 1927 were focused largely upon this question of trade barriers and numerous obstacles (including a good many quite apart from tariff levels) were revealed. But one wonders sometimes whether their real significance is not at times exaggerated, whether the amazing adjustability or fluidity of modern commerce does not in large part circumvent such barriers within a short time after their establishment...
...there is another phase to this question which reaches beyond Europe herself and extends to her colonies, dependencies and other outlying provinces. The trade of these lands is European since the economic wealth of the regions in question and its distribution are controlled from that continent. We import essential raw materials for our industries from these European dependencies mostly without tariff charges...
...rubber brought the shift in public opinion, whether the recent discussion of the Massachusetts, Public Utilities' Commission unsettled the upward movement, or whether the Bank of England's raising its rate a month ago exerted the final pressure that broke the market is in a sense an academic question...