Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most encouraging, but nevertheless, surprising development in this newly aroused discussion has been contributed by the undergraduate publications of several great Eastern colleges. Spurred by an editorial appearing in the Harvard CRIMSON which, after deploring the absurd overemphasis now placed on intercollegiate football contests, advocated such drastic reforms as sharply reduced schedules, abolition of scouts, spring practice, high-priced admission tickets, and sectional championships, while encouraging interclass games and coaching by graduates only, the student dailies of Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth voiced their strong condemnation of existing procedure. We believe that the editors of these publications are reflecting the sanest...
...Senator Santiago Iglesias of Porto Rico presented to Mr. Coolidge a petition purporting to come from 13,000 Porto Ricans, alleging that the island is dominated by a political machine and oppressed by taxation, that four-fifths of its 800,000 laborers are without permanent employment, and that drastic remedies are called for. ¶ Governor Len Small of Illinois called to request the President to favor larger appropriations to aid the states in eliminating bovine tuberculosis, although the President is known to be opposed in principle to Federal aid for states. ¶ Senator Arthur R. Robinson, newly appointed Republican Senator...
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...Anti-Saloon League and the Volstead Act. At the age of twelve he had signed a pledge never to vote for a law permitting the sale of intoxicating beverages, but the methods of the Anti-Saloon League, he said, are unChristian, "vindictive, vengeful and mercenary," and "by its drastic methods of trying to enforce the Volstead law it has hatched the biggest crop of law-breakers ever inflicted upon a community...
Divorce. The Rev. Caleb R. Stetson, rector of famed Trinity Church, was one of several alarmed Manhattan divines who desired drastic action to check divorces. The Church now refuses to remarry the guilty party in divorce. Dr. Stetson proposed that the innocent party should also be barred from this service of the Church. The proposal was rejected. Said Dr. Percy Kammerer of Pittsburgh: "This resolution is unsound, unscientific; it evades the issue. It is negative, punitive, retributive...