Word: ent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began with a rehearsal of Tennes¬see's pioneer times, telling how his great-great- grandfather started West from that region. He rehearsed the industrial prog¬ress of the so-called New South within the seven and one-half years of the pres¬ent Administration, citing increases in crops, automobiles, telephones, life insurrance, etc. etc., and reminding the South that the Commerce Department's southern branch offices had been increased from three in 1920 to 29 now. He said he was sure the South would agree that a change in the Government's policies "can bring only distress and disaster...
...bondholders, own the onetime Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, a system estimated at $750,000,000. They bought it at an auction sale in Butte, Mont., last week for $140,000,000 and their promise to untangle the road's debts, no light task. For the pres-ent there will be no change among the operating executives. But the system's name has been altered to the Chicago, Milwaukee & Pacific Railroad, with "The Milwaukee" as the nickname to be popularized. In St. Paul, famed neighbor of famed Minneapolis, Minn., this renaming is viewed with vexation...
...farming in the fertile Ukraine, Since many of the Communist leaders are Jews, the new Jewish farmer class has been extended numerous concessions by the State. For example their household goods are carried practically free from the cities to the farmlands. None the less, farmer Jews are at pres ent unprosperous, and face a long struggle to develop their new lands...
...founded in U. S. fiction. Its name is Pardway. The roots strike back to Peter Aram Pardway's smithy in postRevolution New England. The great branches flourish in Chicago where Peter's grandsons, dry Daniel and black Thane, have amassed fortunes by the opening of the pres-ent century. Today the Pardways are decayed and blown to the earth's ends; in their author's figure, the pillars of their temple have crumbled, the roof crashed. Their tragedy is that Daniel, who alone had increase, devoted more attention to the altitude of his pile than...
Captain Ludovici is convinced that sex equality is "a manifest absurdity." He calls for a rigorous Eugenics (including infanticide) ; for masculine will power, leadership and brains "sufficient to overshadow any female brain that is placed alongside;" for reversal of pres ent social values that enable the unfit to draw the fit down to their level; for the development of higher faculties in this new, robust man, especially psychic faculties...