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Natural enough was opposition to President Hoover's welfare plans from Massachusetts, which was the first state to reject the Child Labor Amendment, which consistently refused to accept a U.S. dole under the Sheppard-Towner...
...Thomas Hardy's overpowering novel seems hardly possible in the United States. From the time when a child is ready for kindergarten until and A.B., he enters a graduate school, he can pick and choose his institution, if one has not already picked and chosen him. Some may reject him, but others will welcome him. If "bad times" should diminish the number of applicants for admission to preparatory, undergraduate, and graduate schools, the competition for students would be even more resourceful and keener...
...plans of my friends are working out satisfactorily-for Governor or U. S. Senator. Once in this struggle, I'll give Pennsylvania voters plenty to think about." Another candidate who vowed he would be in the May primary for the Republican nomination was William Scott Vare, Senator-Reject, invalid...
...Commission a merger plan in 1921 which caused such dissension that it was quickly junked. Vainly the Commission wrestled with the Congressional order, made no apparent progress. Impatient at the delay, some roads (Nickel Plate, Baltimore & Ohio, Northern Pacific) brought in voluntary merger plans only to have the Commission reject or ignore them. The Commission begged Congress to relieve it of the duty of framing a general plan. Congress did nothing. Finally, this year, the Commission buckled down to work, produced a plan which mustered a majority vote...
...President-Reject of Mexico, Señor José Vasconcelos, with son and daughter...