Word: bringing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Local option has been hitherto the only means of keeping filthy literature from invasion of a certain district. The local watch and ward society bring the matter to the attention of police, who, after due deliberation, decide on the merits of the case. But now, silently, without amendment, national prohibition has arrived. Perhaps a law may follow, declaring a book legitimate of which not more than one half of one per cent, by pages, may be classed as filthy or obscene...
...themselves, predicted a 2¢ rise in retail sugar prices, urged a "battle of the American sugar bowl." The House was told by Chairman Hawley of the Ways & Means Committee that the new sugar duty would encourage domestic production, free the U. S. from dependence on foreign cane crops, eventually bring down the price of sugar...
Commission Changes. Changes were proposed in the Tariff Commission to bring it under close Presidential control. The old membership would be swept out of office. Seven, instead of six, new commissioners would be appointed, at higher salaries. Two-party representation on the Commission would be abolished. With this new Commission, the President could utilize the flexible provision of the tariff law (50% changes in tariff rates at a stroke of the pen) with great facility...
...great increase in the size of the University has not been allowed to bring with it the standardization of production which has so often accompanied rapid development in the United States. The three hundred year old liberal tradition of which Harvard is so justly proud, has never been more carefully fostered than during President Lowell's administration. Undergraduate papers have been indiscreet, members of the faculty have outraged bands of zealous alumni, but President Lowell has defended them to the utmost no matter how out of sympathy he may have been with the opinions expressed. His own vigorously independent nature...
...prosperity at Frankfort. Prominence of Germany in the international chemical field is shown by the fact that cartel representatives, meeting in Paris, last week allotted 74% of the export trade to Germany, 17% to France and 8% to Switzerland. Sole check to cartel plans was the failure to bring Britain's chemical industry into the cartel structure, but cartel leaders trust that they will eventually be able to overcome the British tradition of individualism which has thus far made the United Kingdom a conspicuous exception to the prevailing cartel trend...