Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...women in any such manner as will destroy or even endanger their future motherhood." The chief excitement during the sessions was caused by the supporters of the National Woman's Party. This group advocates an amendment to the Constitution to the effect that "men and women shall have equal rights throughout the U. S. and every place subject to its jurisdiction"-which among other things would invalidate the legal restrictions on hours of work, the minimum wage, etc., for women unless the restrictions were made to apply to both men and women. The Party contends that the type...
...should be content with less. The Initial Offers. The British were said to have knocked off 80 million of the 580 million pounds owing to them for a starter, and to have proposed that the residual 500 million pounds ($2,430,000,000) should be repaid to them in equal yearly installments over 62 years, i. e., a flat annuity of slightly over 8 million pounds ($38,880,000). The Italians allegedly replied by offering to repay a total of ap- proximately 250 million pounds (half the British demand), in yearly annuities of 4 million pounds...
...would have known instantly that the freshman spoke the truth, that he was indeed John Davison Rockefeller III. He would have known that Freshman Rockefeller had entered Princeton University after preparing at Loomis Institute, that he was studying for a B. S. degree, that some day, all things being equal, Freshman Rockefeller would be one of Princeton's most eminent alumni, one of her most important trustees...
Blanking the Weston Club with five straight victories on the University Courts last Saturday afternoon the Crimson seconds pulled up on equal terms with the second place Harvard Club quintet in the final drive for the Class B title in the Massachusetts Squash Racquets Association's inter club series. The University raquet men are now within two games of the flying Newton Center leaders who continued to pace the field with a clean sweep over the Milton five. The Harvard Club relinquished its claim to undisputed possession of the second berth by dropping one of its five matches...
These crusaders wielded Gillettes in place of broadswords for the rising cause of equal rights for men, they said. The women students powdered their noses; the men shaved: and the professor, whose annoyance at having his lecture-room resemble a beauty-parlor started the whole thing, approved to the extent of awarding A's to the shavers...