Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mondell called for the report of the Committee on Rules. Paul Howland, counsel of Harry M. Daugherty, stepped forward. His report had two interesting features. One was the provision giving women equal representation with men on the National Committee. At this the women delegates went wild. The men expressed approval. The other was a provision giving the National Committee power to oust any committeeman who refused to support the Convention's nominees?a threat for the Wisconsin group if they should turn from Coolidge to La Follette. The roar of approval which this provision produced was as great as that...
...considered impossible to take such a progressive step at present, at least the University authorities ought to be willing to put Princeton men on an equal footing with Yale and Harvard undergraduates. At these institutions, probation is inflicted on a man with the understanding that if by the middle of the term his work has shown improvement, he will be permitted to resume his activities in athletic or non-athletic pursuits. But at Princeton there is no incentive for a man on probation to work, except the threat of expulsion. His disqualification lasts for a whole term...
Predictions of still more phenomenal performances this afternoon do not take into account the fact that more than occasionally, the best times of the finals do not equal the best of the preliminaries. But with such competition, it is unbelievable that no new records will be set up. And without undue adulation or glorification one is inclined to accept the general verdict that when this year's Olympic team reaches Paris, there will be few spare points for the Argentines, the Portuguese, and the Greeks...
...Army in April, 1861, mustered out as Brigadier General in October, 1865, the Nestor of the House of Representatives, rose before his colleagues in council: "In all the 60 years that have elapsed since the war there has not been one great dramatic poem written, one lyric equal to the soldiers' songs sung during that war, nor one of high moral import. We are living in a utilitarian age, and the spirit that actuated that great war appears to have gone. "What have we now? Yes, We Have No Bananas, Take Us To the Land of Jazz, Hail, Hail...
...product not so virulent as it was four years ago, but not without piquancy. His chief topic was the Japanese exclusion feature of the Immigration Act. Said he: "Responsibility for the faux pas that played hob with the pleasant relationship with Japan and the United States rests in about equal proportions upon the Secretary of State, the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate, and, we re-(Continued on Page 24) (Continued from Page 20) gret to have to say in fairness to others, the Japanese Ambassador. We may as well be frank about it. Mr. Hanihara unwittingly...