Word: controls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Extraterritorial rights. During the 19th Century, a series of treaties exempted nearly all non-Chinese residents in China from the control of Chinese law courts. Accused foreigners have their cases tried either in special international courts or in their local consulates. This was made necessary by the malconformation of Chinese law as compared with the beauty of Roman and Teutonic law, regarded by white men as their inalienable inheritance. Nationalistic China now resents the concession of extra-territorality, demands the abrogation of the treaties. The most important speech of U. S. Minister Schurman - recently promoted to be Ambassador at Berlin...
...chief advantages that is to be gained by Munn's being at the head of his sport, is the general uplifting effect that he will have. A trained college man and an American will help break up the foreign ring that has up till recently held the control of wrestling...
...University, but he points out many respects in which he believes its government might be improved. He stresses most the difference between a faculty government and that of a non-resident corporation such as is now in force, and declares that this system might be improved by faculty control...
...power to decide anything or to give orders to anybody in the institution. Over the professors or the faculty he has no authority of any kind." In spite of this, however, Dr. Kirkpatrick believes that the government is "a benevolent despotism" with the president as the despot. "A practical control over the appointing and administrative boards of the faculties", he says, "goes far toward securing for the officer who possesses it, the rule over the institution...
...Today birth-control argument centres about the proposals that women should be taught to avoid pregnancy and that abortion should be legalized." Points usually made...