Word: council
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...home town," Westerville, birth- place of the Anti-Saloon League, was visited promptly by reporters from Columbus, Ohio. They reported that recently for the first time in history the village council had had to appropriate ($500) for prohibition enforcement, that malt and hops were on sale, that the students of Otterbein College, Westerville's seat of learning, could tell of at least two Columbus bootleggers "with a rural trade" who visit Westerville regularly...
Jugoslavia and Peru were elected for three years to the semi-permanent seats on the League Council vacated this year by Rumania and Chile. Poland was re-elected...
...Agriculture 26 years ago as a "dangerous radical" and has had little or no formal education since. More important in the Dictator's eyes is the fact that Bubnov fought valiantly as a commander of guerrilla bands during the Red Revolution, swashbuckled himself into the Supreme Military Council (General Staff), and is sufficiently literate to have edited for several years the Soviet Army's propaganda magazine Red Star. Kicked out of the Ministry of Education, last week, to make room for General Bubnov, was high-strung, sensitive, super-cultured Anatole Lunacharsky. He encouraged esthetic dancing, once directed...
...serious illness of Barrett Hoyt '30, treasurer of the. Student Council and chairman of the Student Council Budget Committee, John Cross '30 will be in charge of the committee's work this fall, it was announced yesterday by W. R. Harper '30, president of the Council...
Racial Equalities. Although the U. S. immigration furor over better racial stocks has subsided, interest in racial superiorities continues. National Research Council's Otto Klineberg found slight differences in the intelligence ratings of German, French and Italian children (Nordics, Alpines, Mediterraneans). City children of the three types were smarter than the corresponding country children. Nor did Vanderbilt University's Lyle Hicks Lanier find sharp differences between Negro and white children, or New Zealand's I. L. G. Suther- land between primitive (Maori) and civilized adults...