Word: trend
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...trend towards a "citizen army" has not vanished completely with the disappearance of universal military training propaganda. The latest theory seems to be that if all citizens cannot be persuaded to become soldiers, at least all soldiers can become citizens by virtue of an education entirely beyond the pale of the military. The army has already evolved a method for sending eligible men to colleges all over the country; now the Marine Corps announces a different plan, based on the correspondence school idea. Every recruit receives with his uniform some text books, and a cordial invitation to his share...
Throughout the meeting of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor last week, a pronounced trend toward conservatism was to be noticed. Mr. Tobin, Treasurer of the A. F. of L., scored the general strike. Mr. Morrison, Secretary of the A. F. of L., says that present standards of living and working conditions must be maintained, but he does not stand for the policy of fighting the tendency to lower wages that springs from natural causes. The council even went so far as to call Mr. Hoover to its session to obtain his advice...
...matter of life and death. As one prisoner, convicted because he wouldn't tell on a pal, told Mr. Osborne, "the ethics of my profession forbid squealing on a pal." On the other hand graduates from our higher schools of education, which represent the height of our social trend, leave their sources of learning with keen intelligence and high moral purpose, yet ready to cut their neighbor's throat for a business advantage...
Prices will be 25 to 35 percent lower in the spring because retail prices, blocking the downward trend at present, will have to break then...
...question cannot be settled by the present tactics pursued by the British Government. The life or death of MacSwiney or any other man will not in the end determine the solution of the Irish problem--that will depend upon social and economic considerations--but it will influence the trend of though in this country and in England itself to no mean extent. Whether MacSwiney had been released or not would have made no difference as to the outcome, for one man cannot secure Irish independence, but it would have made a difference in the good opinions of many well-wishers...