Word: equality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...property to the management of the Republican People's Party, sole official political organization of the country. Under the Moslem inheritance laws of the sultans, no woman shared in a man's estate. Under the will of Atatürk, stanch advocate of woman's equal rights, women were almost the sole beneficiaries. To the party the ghazi gave these directions: pay his surviving sister $10,000 yearly; provide varying fixed incomes for his five adopted daughters; buy Adopted Daughter and Airwoman Sahiba Gokcen a house; see that the two children of President Ismet...
...development of intramural sports by the Houses, the fact is startling that over 250 students living around the Houses, are deprived of organized athletic benefits. One reason for maltreatment is that years ago such students were permitted to use P.B.H. as a center and to compete on an equal athletic basis; but the crew turned out by P.B.H. proved so far superior to any House crew that after it had twice won the Agassiz Cup from Yale, its competitive right was withdrawn. Since then idleness on the issue has been backed by the argument that these outsiders have no desire...
Under the terms of the corporation's grant, for each $500 scholarship an equal sum must be raised by the college community. Full utilization of the scholarships therefore will depend upon the success of the committee's campaign for funds...
...action of the Corporation in voting twenty scholarships for refugee students has been universally applauded as a generous and constructive measure. However, these scholarships are contingent upon the raising of an equal amount of money by the Harvard Refugee Committee. The meeting planned for Tuesday night, with three prominent speakers, is naturally a splendid opportunity for persons interested in this drive to contribute...
...attacks not merely our Christian heritage but also our belief in the dignity of man here on this earth. The United States was founded by those who were persecuted abroad. It has grown, ever entrenching these beliefs in the individual worth of each character and the right of equal treatment and opportunity. It is an ideal.... But we have fought and died for it, and the greater the oppression the deeper goes the faith...