Word: abolitionism
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The President's athletic pretensions have not always lain along such hap-hazard lines. In the summer of 1937 he went with a group to climb in the Sierra Nevadas--"real rope stuff" Conant refers to it. The next two summers he climbed in the Canadian Rockies and then was...
One dark Thursday in October 1929, the hottest bull market in U.S. history caught fire, and in a matter of weeks $30 billion in paper stock values went up in smoke. As brokers jumped from their penthouses and amateur stock gamblers went to the wall, the U.S. began the calamitous...
Greenback. For President, 72-year-old Seattle Grocer Frederick Proehl; for Vice President, Edward J. Bedell, Indianapolis contractor. The Greenbackers, who favor immediate abolition of Government bonds and issuance of paper money unbacked by metal reserves, had 14 Representatives in the Congress of 1878. This year, admits Proehl, they "won...
Back in Egypt, Fuad's subjects debated what to do with Farouk's empty palaces. Two overcrowded universities wanted to occupy them as classrooms, but one Cairo newspaper argued: let the palaces become museums like Versailles, so that the people might see what lavish living went on near...
"I congratulate you on the abolition of the system," Prime Minister Nehru told 50,000 peasants of his native Uttar Pradesh last week. "At last," said one of the cheering crowd who heard him at Modinagar, "I can walk erect."