Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Press reports received recently in this country state that Guatemala has decided to abandon the use of subsidiary coins made of hard rubber, and is to adopt coins of German manufacture which are to be made of porcelain. No longer can the spendthrift Guatemalan carelessly toss his extra pesos to the street urchins, knowing that if they fail to catch them on the fly they will get them on the rebound; now, alas, the coins upon striking the paving will be shattered into a thousand pleces, valueless as a means of exchange and effective only in puncturing automobile tires...
...national enforcement law, and then to bring State legislation very thoroughly and earnestly into concurrence with and assistance of the national enforcement of the amendment as the Volstead Act applies it, with increasingly stringent measures to meet every new and ingenious means of evasion, or (2) to abandon the one-half-of-one-per-cent interpretation in the Volstead Act, and to read the words 'intoxicating beverage' as referring only to liquors having an alcholic content of more than four, five or even ten per cent. Such an interpretation would probably at once put beer and light wines...
...words. Mr. Gompers was vouched for by his distinguished introducer, Professor Ripley, as "a great leader of men and a great lover of his country." We are glad to think that he is both. But as a leader and a patriot, would it not be better for him to abandon these generalities about "bitter antagonism" and that sort of thing, and present some specific cases where the workers are being discriminated against? Perhaps he intends to do that in citing the defence of the principle of the open shop by the National Association of Manufacturers and the National Erectors' Association...
...negotiate the famous Treasury Agreement. By that, Mr. Lloyd George, as Minister of Munitions, asked the trade unions of Great Britain, who, contrary to our condition dominated the metal trades, to agree with the Government that for the period of the war they would abandon their restrictions, work with non-unionists and admit a dilution of female labor. In other words, Great Britain, as a matter of public policy, sought the establishment of an open shop as the only means of meeting the requirements of national defense...
...that the first active collegiate Socialist society was founded at Harvard some ten or twelve years ago--(when Socialism was decidedly unfashionable)--it is amusing to find that in certain quarters liberalism at Harvard is just being discovered. To some, tolerance means the privilege of making the other fellow abandon his own ideas for somebody else's. At Harvard, tolerance means the privilege of minding one's own business. That explains why we do not duck a man in the Charles for not attending a mass-meeting, or for playing chess on the afternoon of the Yale game. It explains...