Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order dissolution and Premier King resigned forthwith. On the contrary, when suave, aristocratic, moneyed Premier Meighen approached Baron Byng with a request for dissolution last week it was granted instanter -thereby putting the electoral machinery in the hands of Conservatives. Though Lord Byng acted within his legal rights, custom virtually obligated him to follow the original "advice" of Premier King. Unquestionably the efforts of Mr. King during the past five years to free Canada from every vestige of dependence upon Britain have been remarked with disfavor in Downing Street, and at Buckingham Palace. Per contra, Premier Meighen is a staunch...
Legislated Frugality. Though Premier Mussolini adhered last week to his recent custom of maintaining a discreet reserve about his policies, the inspired fascist press hailed these new decrees as "the work of a great genius...
...maintains his enormous sphere of influence over Central China as the somewhat distrusted exponent of the old and vanished Chinese aristocracy. A cunning general, he is perhaps the most suavely mannered and custom abiding militarist in a country where law and order have long since conspicuously vanished...
...Friday when the Eucharistic Congress met at Chicago and Mr. Coolidge discovered that the etiquette of the occasion demanded a message from the White House. He might, as he has been known to do have sent a message which said nothing. Or he might, as is his more common custom, have sent one which did say something, but something which everyone knew before. Instead the President's new secretary for public statements (who by the way is not nearly so competent as the lamented Mr. Judson C. Welliver) drafted a manifesto which unexpectedly said a great deal,--a great deal...
From Mount Holyoke comes news of the latest undergraduate investigation of the educational system. And by that chance which has been causing no small amount of surprise since the analytical custom originated, the students have hit upon several constructive ideas. Apparently, Holyoke has been suffering from that form of cultural indigestion which attends an unchecked elective system. Diversity of choice has resulted in a hodge-podge of courses which served the educational god of distribution without proportionate respect for his twin, concentration...