Word: creation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rather startled at subject of a prize competition just announced by the Cosmopolis Press of New York. This organization will give a thousand dollars for the best play, motion picture scenario or short story adaptable into a play or scenario "on the American jail as a force in the creation of criminals and the fostering of crime" The judges of the contest will include Ludwig Lewisohn,-author and an editor of the Nation; Minnie Madern Fiske, well known actress; Carl Van Doren, literary editor of the Century Magazine; Dean George W. Kirkway, formerly of Columbia University; and Ida Clyde Clarke...
...question of a Federal Department of Education has come up again. The National Education Association, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the American Federation of Labor and other organizations asked President Coolidge to recommend to Congress the creation of such a Department, its head to be a member of the Cabinet...
...England the creation of a Board of Education has worked on the whole very well. The reforms imposed upon national education by President Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, though they were opposed violently for a time, have in the main been accepted with benefit...
...make-believe and of romance. It is his world. He moves in it serenely and triumphantly. He is a giant of a novelist, a swift spinner of glowing tales, a man with a passion for accomplishment who has been endowed with sufficient vitality to pursue his images to their creation. Long life to him and his vigor...
...Strangely enough, there was German sympathy for it too. Dr. Rathenau, who is now dead but who was held in the highest esteem both in Germany and in Allied nations, said in conversing with me that the creation of such a state was conceivable if France proceeded in a conciliatory fashion. The laborers in the Rhineland district at that time did not feel much sympathy for the central government, according to Rathenau, and particularly wished to avoid much of the reparations of a war which as a district the Rhineland did not sponsor...