Word: ap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York City, lectures by the Paulist Fathers in St. Patrick's Cathedral, which began Feb. 3, were announced in blazing colored lights on street corners. Signs flashed on Broadway at 14th, 39th, 46th, 50th and 111th Streets. Also, 200 posters, 125,000 invitations and 27,000 ap- peals through the K. of C. urged non-Catholics to attend. The general topic is: The Church and Modern Religious and Ethical Problems...
...public debt and postal expenditures. This, according to announcement, is the figure to which President Harding had hoped to limit expenditures. In addition there is $1,300,000,000, for interest and amortization of the public debt, making the grand total $3,000,000,000. (As postal revenues ap- proximately offset the allowance of the Post Office Department, this amount is not an " expense " in the same way as other expenditures...
Henceforth the British Review of Reviews will be owned and edited by Wickham Steed. Steed was formerly Lord Northcliffe's man; he ap- peared in the U. S. with Northcliffe when the Fleet Street colossus made his tour of the world in 1921. For Northcliffe he edited the London Times. The monthly he now controls was founded in 1890 by W. T. Stead...
Died. Ivan Kharin, Russian general and sometime mine owner, of cancer of the throat, at Copenhagen. Before the war he was so rich that he " never traveled by train, but always in a cortege of luxuriously ap- pointed automobiles.'' (See page...
...conduct research in special fields and authorizes appropriation up to $500,000 for its administer. The most important clauses in the bill are those authorizing $15,000,000 for the removal of illucisey and for the propagation of Ameriesnism while $50,000,000 is set aside to level the ap- portunities in public, elementary, and secondary schools. The latter distribution is to be made equally between the children and the teachers the state deciding upon the local distribution, though it is put under certain restrictions by the Federal Government. Another item suggests that $20,000,000 be appropriated for physical...