Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...History of Strikes. There were large strikes in 1887, 1900, 1902, 1906, 1912,1920, 1922. The strike of 1902, in which President Roosevelt intervened, was followed by the award of the "Anthracite Coal Strike Commission" which has been used as a basis for all negotiations between operators and miners ever since...
...offered $100,000 to the man or organization that shall propose the most practical plan by which the United States may coöperate with other nations to gain world peace. The award is to be divided into two parts of $50,000 each. The first part will be awarded to the author of the plan chosen by the jury of award. The second part will be awarded when the practicability of the plan is demonstrated "either through adoption by the United States Senate or because a sufficient popular response endorses...
...York Evening Post pertinently remarked that if the award were to be divided in conformity with the comparative difficulty of these two tasks, $100 would be given for the plan and $99,900 for getting it adopted by the Senate, or equivalent...
...appointed a policy committee to lay down the exact terms of the contest and the giving of the prize, which will be known as the American Peace Award. This committee will in turn select the jury to choose the winning plan...
Mussolini has been tactless in several instances. On the occasion of the visit of the British Royalties the Fascist hymn was played with the English and Italian national anthems, an award of royal honor to Mussolini that surprised Queen Mary and annoyed the King of Italy. Mussolini's Minister of Finance referred to his appointment " by Mussolini," although it is the royal prerogative to appoint Ministers. The Minister of Education, Signor Gentile, announced that he had become converted from Liberalism to Fascism. Liberal leaders pointed out that Gentile had never been a member of their Party and could...