Word: according
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...show more zeal on his own part. Lingering soreness over the outcome of the coal strike settlement may have played some part. But the most plausible hypothesis is that of a political motive. He has already announced that if affairs at the White House should not proceed in accord with his standards, he would toss his ha into the presidential ring. Since he came into the governorship on a wave of reform sentiments, he may well have seized this opportunity to show the nation that his might is still on the side of right. But actions speak louder than words...
...Yale has suffered in the same way if not in the same degree as Harvard. Moreover, by actions which smack of boarding school discipline, Yale has laid herself open to ridicule, just as Harvard laid herself open to attack by emphasizing a phase of entrance limitation which could not accord with American ideas of education...
Commissioners Charles Beecher Warren and John Barton Payne (who had been in Mexico City the past three months) returned to Washington to lay the results of the "Mexican recognition conference" before the State Department. The details of the tentative accord which has been reached (see page 12) remain unknown until the publication of the minutes of the conference. But the Commissioners regard their work as completed...
...light cruiser Aurora was "adopted" by the Central Executive Committee of the Russian Socialist Union. Reason given: The cruiser (of its own accord) struck the decisive blow in the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. Apparently some sentimental feeling on the part of Moscow caused this "adoption" to be made, for it was stated that a cowardly band of counter-revolutionaries tried to blow up the Aurora in a fit of blind rage...
...date. Last week the press was as optimistic as ever: The Journal of Commerce: " Before the end of next week it is expected that the two American Commissioners . . . will report the successful conclusion of their negotiations . . . " Public Ledger (Philadelphia) : "The American and Mexican Commission will sign the Warren-Roa accord Saturday (Aug. 11)." New York American: "Mexican accord waits on Coolidge-Approval on recognition expected by Tuesday...