Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was some fear in Russia, whose dramatists are equal to any in the world, that the Soviet authorities in Moscow would suppress public performances of Alexis Tolstoy's play The Golden Book of Love, a light comedy which features Catherine the Great. It was felt that the Empress, being at the head of a Tsarist State, would be too much for the Bolsheviki...
Lawrence B. Sperry was a son of Elmer Sperry, famed inventor of many gyroscopic appliances. Scarcely 30, he had achieved a reputation almost equal to that of his father. In 1914 in France, he won a 10,000-franc prize, flying a plane so stabilized by the Sperry automatic pilot, that a mechanic walked out on the wing while the pilot left the machine entirely to its own control. The first man to loop a hydroplane, the first to instal a radio set in an airplane, he was carving a brilliant career as a designer and builder of aircraft...
...restrict immigration to an annual quota of 2% of the number of per- sons of each nationality resident in this country in 1890 plus equal quotas for relatives of persons now resident...
Under the heading mandatory system the Council will also consider U. S. Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes' demand for equal opportunities for the U. S. in mandated areas. One of the great problems which the mandatory system has created is the indefinite character of the mandates themselves. Capitalists have hesitated to invest much money in the areas fearing the nonpermanence of the system...
...social status. He was to be obedient and subservient, he was expected to be grateful to the employer for giving him employment and to depend on his future state for substantial rewards for a life of service. Now he realizes that the labor which the worker gives is equal in value to the employment which he receives. This throwing aside of the submissive spirit has been vital to the perpetuation of democracy. We must not forget that a country's greatness lies not in its trade balances, its gold reserve, or its commercial prosperity, but above and beyond all these...