Word: affects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Psychologists and alarmists periodically come out with new discoveries, so called, which affect the future of humanity. They have proved that man, is, as a race, incapable of true civilization; that negroes and eskimoes have the minimum of brain capacity, and that woman is far inferior to man; but it has remained for a scientist to declare that "70,000,000 of the inhabitants of the United States have little or no brains, and education can add little to their intelligence". Not more than 50 per cent of our population is capable of completing high school, and less than...
Part of the program of the convention will be consideration of independent citizenship for married women. Hitherto, in most countries, women have assumed the nationality of their husbands upon marriage. Under the Cable Law, passed last year, marriage does not affect citizenship status in the United States. So if a foreign woman marries an American citizen, although in many cases her native country disowns her, she does not automatically acquire American citizenship. The Alliance wants to do away with these "women without countries " by having measures similar to the Cable Law passed by other nations. Bills to this effect...
...Westminster Gazette: . . . " Threatens to affect the liberties of citizens of other countries...
...obtain the seclusion essential to great, solitary minds? To test out my theory, I went to the Copley Plaza this evening where Boston's social life centres in all its worst aspects. I had determined to show my complete unconsciousness of all that stupidity of convention which these people affect. I wore my usual quiet air of assurance and my customary yellow flannel shirt (I should have preferred my other one,--which is more appropriately black,--but that I left at the Comrades' headquarters in New York) which I leave independently unbuttoned at the throat. Of course, I never...
...stated that the Stinnes denial only appertains to the buying of foreign exchanges, and that no mention is made of the huge purchases made by the Stinnes group just before the fall. Furthermore, people hold that Stinnes is strictly accountable to the German people when his financial deals affect their economic and political life...