Word: commentator
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presidential decree promulgated to take effect on July 31: 1) Church property to be confiscated. 2) No foreign-born clergymen may officiate in Mexico. 3) No religious corporation may conduct an educational institution. 4) Monasteries and nunneries are dissolved. 5) No religious publication may publish any account of or comment on national political affairs. 6) There can be no religious instruction in schools. 7) Religious ministers shall not be able to associate themselves for political purposes. 8) All religious acts of public worship shall be celebrated absolutely inside of churches which shall always be under the vigilance of the authorities...
Before the conference of Anglo-American historians, meeting last week in London, went Premier Stanley Baldwin of Britain to welcome them and to enunciate a Tory view of historical writing that caused a flurry of international comment, mostly favorable. Said Mr. Baldwin: "I am quite sure that if you try to bring up youth on entirely unbiased history he will never read it. I prefer my own method of getting a vivid picture first and correcting it afterwards; because, generally speaking, you do not want to be fair until you are grown up. ... I think that to try to make...
...defendant fails to testify, the Court and Counsel should have the right to comment upon the fact...
Judges should be permitted to instruct as to the law, and to comment upon the evidence and upon the testimony and character of witnesses...
...Arizona, Professor Byron Cummings of the state university refused to comment on the efficacy of a divining rod (a wishbone-shaped stick with a wooden thimbleful of "certain chemicals" at the fork) by which one of his geologists, one Charles Udall, located a mammoth's shoulder blade near Arivaca. Diviner Udall's thimble contained something sensitive to lime deposits. The stick dipped to outline a mammoth's tusk, a whole mammoth's skeleton, a buried dinosaur. Dr. Cummings, instead of theorizing about the instrument, proceeded to investigate further whether an important new fossil bed had been...