Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tutorial system is perhaps the most interesting of recent experiments in American university education. Introduced on trial, it was decided not to adopt the English system on bloc, but to adapt that system to local needs. The method was first employed...
...demanded immediate legislation by Congress to "enable the farmers to control and manage excess of crops at their own expense, so as to secure cost of production with reasonable profit." They approved of the Federal Farm Board plan, backed by Frank O. Lowden of Illinois. They defended the farm bloc as a political unit. Just as onetime Governor Lowden is the potent friend of farmers in the Republican party, so is Edwin T. Meredith, Iowa farm journal publisher, onetime Secretary of Agriculture, their Democratic friend. If, by some upheaval of politics, the farm bloc should gain control of both parties...
...Italo-British pressure upon the Government of Abyssinia to grant British concessions at the headwaters of the Nile, and Italian concessions in Abyssinia near Italian Somaliland (TIME, Aug. 9); 3) the problems of Italo-British relationship engendered by Premier Mussolini's intrigues to form a pro-Italian bloc of nations in the Balkans...
...half present labor cost. If, as a condition of this co-operative effort, proportionate shares of the resultant added profits were reflected in lower rates to the public, in added profits to the owners, and a fair participation to the employes, the men, by investing this added wage en bloc through their trustees, could within ten years acquire by purchase in the open market a controlling interest in the railroads by which they are employed...
...thing for the party's Presidential nominee." In Raleigh, N. C., a semi-bald, placid, likeable newspaper editor amuses himself and satisfies his readers. He is Josephus Daniels, Democrat, War-time Secretary of the Navy. Last week he became orator once again. Exasperated with hearing farm bloc blurb, he told the Annual Farmers' Convention at North Carolina State College to "awake out of their sleep and go into politics redheaded. . . . There never was a time when farmers had such negligible influence in government as now." And Editor Daniels was never ironic. The rancor of feuds has wiped...