Word: creation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exactly like the last, except that M. Pashitch and Finance Minister Stoyadinovitch have been dropped, while the new Premier holds the Finance portfolio and has entrusted his former ministry (Public Works) to a brother Radical, M. Svuitchitch. The significant fact is, of course, that M. Raditch, leader of the Creation National Party, has consented to enter another Radical Premier's Cabinet - that oil and water have been mixed unstably once more...
...absten- tions" were due only in part to the fear which the Deputies felt for the franc. The Radicals, especially the Socialists, who abstained did so at a price: the reluctant inclusion by the Government in the budget bill as finally passed of clauses providing "in principle" for the creation of a government monopoly of petroleum and sugar?two products now very largely distributed in France by foreign-owned corporations...
...person has been so outstanding a proponent of the novel and the apparently unusual in American education as has the present incumbent of the Brittingham Chair of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Alexander Meiklejohn. His desire for the creation of a "new college" has long been known, if not completely understood. So with the publishing in the current "New Republic" of the formulated idea of the "new college" one can determine more precisely just whether or not he believes Dr. Meiklejohn's plan either sound or necessary...
...increase in the duty on flour; 3) Legislation blocking the enactment of ultra-reactionary laws; 4) A law punishing blackmailers and blackmailees, if the latter allow themselves to be blackmailed; 5) The taking over by the Government of the Nishihara private loans to China; 6) The creation of a subsidy on domestic pig iron and steel; 7) Large educational and .small naval appropriations; 8) A tax on soft drinks...
...creation of the American Professional Football League may be welcomed from other viewpoints than those of its proponents. Their undertaking is perhaps in itself nothing more than any other intelligent business enterprise which endeavors to supply a popular commodity to sections of the public hitherto debarred from it. But the indirect influence upon conditions in our colleges and universities is an important consideration. College football has been an academic scandal for the last two decades, absorbing the time and interest of the student body to the detriment of intellectual pursuits, developing an unhealthy spirit of competition and vulgar advertising...