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...State Board of Education, which warmly endorsed the work, sent it to the General Assembly for approval as a textbook. In no time at all the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the Anti-Saloon League and Virginia's churches had raced to Richmond to raise a clamor in the legislative halls...
...TIME, Sept. 13). The subsequent decline in other industries brought worse news, for railroad revenue began to fall on most fronts. Car-loadings are now some 20% under last year at the same season. With 28% of U. S. trackage already in the courts, the railroads were quick to clamor for Government help in the form of a general 15% rise in railroad freight rates. For a month railroad men and business leaders have almost unanimously maintained that the alternative to a rate rise is Government operation. Hearings before the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington by last week had become...
While it cannot be denied that to great many students Memorial Church is still only a place where bells boom early in the morning and throughout the day in stuttering echo to Memorial Hall's throaty clamor, neither can Dr. Sperry's interesting statistics be denied. Unquestionably, each recent year has seen an increase in the number of students participating in Harvard's religious affairs. The reason for this increase is probably a matter of individual progress or taste; it is the trend which is significant...
...husky, sharp-witted Vigo fisherman Gonzalo, as to most other Spaniards, Magellan's reputation was ugly. When the rumor got out that his secretive expedition would carry only Portuguese seamen, Magellan tried to stop the angry clamor with bullets, finally took long three Spanish captains. Chosen for their politics rather than their seamanship, they gave him much less opposition than the Basque ship's master, Sebastian del Cano (who with 34 survivors with the only officer to get back to Spain) and del Cano's young protege Gonzalo. If these two, says Author Ford, had been listened...
Because of general clamor aroused by the picture, it appeared for a time that only the M. 0. T.'s principal second-run New York house, the Embassy News-Reel Theatre, would exhibit the LaGuardia biography before November 2, date of the election. But by week's end, as a result of calls for the picture from their patrons, it appeared that some 50-odd circuit and third-run theatres will be showing the picture in New York during the week preceding the election. It seemed that in marching on, TIME had inadvertently stepped on the Tammany tiger...