Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taken, he makes two mistakes. The small group who do not sit on the bleachers is not so small as he thinks, and it is growing by leaps and bounds. Neither is the five-hour day, of any thing approaching it, an accomplished fact as yet. Let Mr. Alger count, if he can, the number of new golf courses and tennis courts for workmen as well as employers, let him find out from any art institute the amazing number of courses in drawing offered within the past five years for business men, or let him look into the growth...
Vague rumblings from the Department of State over the admission of Count Michael Karolyi, and assertions that the Department was "abundantly justified" in preventing him from speaking after he got here have distressed American lovers of free speech. These good people do not realize that the Secretary of State is merely exercising a function consecrated to his use by a benevolent Congress. During the war the Secretary was given the power of controlling aliens absolutely whenever "the public safety" should require it. This power has now been made a permanent attribute of the Department of State...
Free democratic institutions, wrought painfully by the founding fathers, must not be jeopardized through the hasty words of an alien. What matter that any remarks of which Count Karolyi might care to unburden himself would be addressed to audiences already poisoned by open-mindedness? The principle is the thing, and the principle states boldly that America must be protected from foreign radicals. Beneficent councilors of state, acting on information secured through foreign agents, ascertain the exact color of the alien's political views, and if those views are a shade too pink, he shall not pass. Who does not shudder...
...Count Antonio Cippico, Italian Senator and Fascist; Robert Masson, Paris banker, general manager for financial affairs of the Credit Lyonnais; Dr. William E. Rappard, member of the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations, first Swiss lecturer at the institute; three British conference leaders-Major General Sir Frederick Maurice, Director of Military Operations, British General Staff, 1915 to 1918; Lionel Curtis, editor of The Round Table magazine. Arnold Toynbee, writer...
...certain that women did exist at the time of Salamnbz, and that the advent of the bob post-dated that era. The special cable to the New York Times stated that the "importance of such a discovery is evident." The most evident thing about it all is that if Count de Prorok wants to poke about in African sands for buttons and hairpins, it is utterly harmless...