Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nine-Power Treaty related to Chinese customs. The other and more important contained Mr. Elihu Root's resolutions that the Powers agree to respect the sovereignty, independence and territorial and administrative integrity of China, and at the same time agree to maintain the principle of equal opportunity for all nations in commerce and industry. Under these general terms lay specific proposals to call an international conference (which was virtually called last week by President Coolidge) to consider the abrogation of extraterritoriality (trials by consular courts), the setting up of mixed courts, withdrawal of foreign troops and retrocession of leaseholds...
...June. The reason they are of any special interest is because, early last spring, after a great fight, Congress passed a bill which increased the salaries of postal employes (to the tune of about'$68,000,000 a year) and increased revenues in a way to furnish an equal amount of additional revenue (TIME...
...National Defense Act, he pointed out, organized our defense on a tripartate basis : 1) the regular Army, 2) the National Guard, 3) the organized reserves. To carry out this plan, the War Department organized the country into nine corps areas of equal population. From each of the areas, in case of war, is supposed to come one regular Army division, two National Guard divisions and three reserve divisions. The regular divisions would rush to the front, followed by the National Guard; these two would have to hold until the reserves should be ready...
Labor faces the problem differently, but with equal logic. The volume of wages is higher than in 1913, but their value, owing to high prices, etc., is somewhat under the pre-War standard of 1913. Under such circumstances labor can see no justice in the proposals of the capitalists to reduce wages, but is apparently blind to two things...
...study by the most approved method of research. What he said was like Smollett and Gibbon: Smollett's frankness without his coarseness, and Gibbon's erudition and lucidity without his conventionality. In talk of this kind I have never met the man who was Osler's equal...