Word: demands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...laborers are receiving funds from their sympathizers and part of the clergy are encouraging them to hold out for their increased wage demand. A proposal to settle the dispute by the Parliamentary Agricultural Committee is being submitted to the farmers...
Czecho-Slovakia's enterprising new government has undertaken to establish a modern public school system. The diversity of races makes this a problem of peculiar difficulty, for five principal divisions, Czechs, Maygars, Germans, Poles and Ruthenes demand instruction for their children in their respective mother tongues. As a result, the schools in all large cities must have five teachers for every class, carrying on the same work simultaneously in the five languages. Naturally, this duplication results in expense and waste. But with a shrewd eye to the future, the authorities have prescribed English for all students, so that, gradually...
...athletic process is a hardy perennial. It has bloomed recently at Tufts, where the debaters and musical clubs are asking recognition in the form of "T's". It is somewhat incongruous that artists should value the insignia of the athlete above the appreciation of their audience; such a demand can hardly come from true musicians or sincere orators...
...will be given by the Reverend George E. Horr, president of the Newton Theological Institution. This will also take place in Emerson D at 8 o'clock. In the afternoon, however, Professor Talcott Williams, professor of Journalism, Emeritus, at Columbia University will talk on "Lands Lost to Christianity--Their Demand on Missions" at 2.30 o'clock while at 3.30 o'clock Dr. George La Piana will speak on "The Democratic Ideals in the History of the Church". Both of these lectures will be held in Andover Chapel...
...recent Yugo-Slavian elections demand a closer inspection than the mere tabulation of results. This is the first Parliament to be elected in the new State of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes since the elections for the provisional Constituent Assembly in November, 1920, and is therefore of some importance in Balkan politics...