Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federal Radio Commission last week decided to eliminate about 300 of the 694 radio broadcasting stations in the U. S. Reason: to clear the air "in public interest." Those will remain who can convince the commission that public convenience, interest or necessity needs them. Last year about 250 new stations opened...
...Republicans still maintain a clear majority in the House, but they have been reduced to a margin of one in the Senate, where the fighting will take place. This margin, however, is fictional, for the six insurgents Senators from the Northwest will only vote with the party when it suits their particular interests. In addition to this, Smith and Vare are to be denied their seats for some months pending investigation of charges of corrupt practices, in spite of the fact that the alleged illegalities took place in the primaries and that with these charges known they have been elected...
...Democrats who will have a majority most of the time are looking forward to 1928. The role of the Opposition is to oppose and they will not be willing to accept responsibility for clear-cut legislation. So the new Congress promises to be more interesting than fruitful...
...this course. If you are concentrating in Anthropology it is probably a good idea to have it behind you; and secondly, if you want to ease your program for the second half year it will turn the trick very nicely. Lest there be any misunderstanding let it be made clear that it is not an out and out snap course. It probably used to be; but Professor Hooton found that out, and it has been so stiffened that it is only a very simple course...
Last week Mr. Katz was in Manhattan for the Orthodox Congregations convention. There he heard the convention asked to approve men & women sitting together in synagogs, and he blazed. "Jewish law is clear on the subject. We need no argument on that here. Five hundred years from now the Orthodox synagog will find the women and the men still seated separately, and we do not want to depart from the law today!" The rabbis agreed with him. They decided to establish a national board of Jewish education to train children of the Orthodox in Hebrew knowledge and Jewish religion. Already...