Word: america
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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January 29-The nineteenth century in Europe and America...
Newly-elected Premier Maniu of Roumania, in taking America, the golden goose of Europe, as his model for the reorganization of his country, has the eyes of the world upon him. His task is likely to be an irritating one, for when he accomplishes his proposed removal of obnoxious taxes on foreign trade and foreign capital, the holding of "fair elections," and provisions for a clean government, he will already have outstripped his model. By strict adherence to it, he can do no more than develop tariff battles, intervention policies, brass-knuckled good-will trips, Smith-Vare disbarments...
...Cheek '26 was the chief proponent of a resolution to formulate a uniform athletic code for all American colleges and universities, which was adopted by the conference of the National Student Federation of America which met in Columbus, Missourl, during the latter part of the past week...
This will be the first showing in America of this play which was translated from the Gaelic by Katherine Tynan Hinkson and it will be produced, as have the miracle plays in previous years, against the cathedral background in the Germanic Museum. The play has received the more specific title of "Our Lord's Coming and Childhood", and the translation has robbed it of none of the native beauty of rhyme and action that characterizes the original classic of Gaelic literature...
...broad development, exploitation and sale of television and image transmitting apparatus. . . ." The advertisement pointed out that the development of television so far has paralleled that of the early development of radio; and it indicated that Jenkins Television Corp. hoped to duplicate -the grandeur of Radio Corp. of America...