Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ordinary task. . . . He faced a special problem. . . ." Tolerance. During the Bowers bow-wow there was a well-organized "demonstration" by delegates from Western states when "the hand of privilege" was pictured throttling the farmer and picking his pockets. At the close of Permanent Chairman Robinson's address a more spontaneous outburst was touched off by these words: "Jefferson gloried in the Virginia statute of religious freedom. He rejoiced in the provision of the Constitution that declares no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification for office or trust in the United States...
...published semiannually, are sent free to all subscribers who ask for them. Bound volumes of TIME (each containing six months' issues) can be purchased at $5 each. Empty binders (handsome) can be purchased at $3. Indices, bound volumes, binders are had at TIME'S Cleveland office. Address: Penton Bldg., Cleveland...
Stethoscope scientists swarmed to Portland, Ore., last week to attend the annual meeting of the National Tuberculosis Association. Dr. H. Longstreet Taylor of St. Paul in his presidential address emphasized the need for careful supervision of "cured" patients. This is an economic as well as a sociologic need since a large proportion of pulmonary patients are public charges and every relapse doubles the original cost of care. The "cure to end the cure" costs comparatively little and has far reaching benevolent effects, according to figures of the Metropolitan Life Insurance...
More appropriate seemed the second but obscure meaning of lustrum: a period of five years. On September 15, 1928, Dictator de Rivera will have been in power for one whole lustrum. "At that time," he declared last week, "my government will address the country respecting the new laws [said to envision merely the creation of an advisory Assembly, with Parliament continuing suppressed]. . . . These measures will be submitted to a national plebiscite...
Feodor Chaliapin, famed basso profundo of the Metropolitan Opera Company, being entertained by the Berlin Actors' Club, was asked to amuse his hosts with a specimen of song. He arose but instead of singing, delivered a brief address on his life. "Sing, sing!" shouted the bad actors. Chaliapin drew a charcoal cartoon of himself which amused his audience but did not stop their demands for song. Chaliapin rose a third time, went through the motions of an aria, puffing his chest, swinging his arms, opening and shutting his mouth like a large Russian goldfish, without making a sound. After...