Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...religious activity and be longs to the Church ; in U. S. theory it is a secular activity and belongs to the State.* According to the Roman Catholic Church (Pope Leo XIII): "It is not lawful for the State ... to disregard all religious duties or to hold in equal favor different kinds of religion"; the Supreme Court of the U. S. has stated that our "law is committed to the support of no dogma, the establishment of no sect." On marriage and divorce, U, S. law and Catholic law vary widely...
BLACK APRIL-Julia Peterkin- Bobbs Merrill ($2.50). A small book of sketches called Green Thursday, published three years ago, revealed Mrs. Peterkin as an interpreter of Negro peasants whose equal had not been seen since Joel Chandler Harris. Now Mrs. Peterkin has fulfilled the implication of her sketch book with a tremendous painting, a mural in sharp tempera, upon which appears the entire population of an isolated plantation-all the huts, with the doors open, all the hearths, pots, newspapered walls and floor chinks; all the hound dogs, sow pens, butchered hogs, wood piles; all the murmurous lanes and sweaty...
Seventeen men sat in a big room arguing. In their hands lay the conduct of all the people living in an area equal to the British Isles and almost as large as Italy. Nine of the 17 voted one way, then one switched, and the vote stood reversed. Then one vote switched again and again the say-so of nine individuals laid a prohibition upon a whole population...
...hard work but there is lacking that tendency of driving which is evident in the American coaching system and which ultimately gives the American crew the impression of being a machine. But the Oxford or Cambridge eight gradually becomes a crew which for watermanship, blade work and power is equal if not superior to our usual crew...
Architecture is the most practical of arts as well as one of the most aesthetic. A building that serves for centuries to house the religion of unnumbered thousands is beautiful with a spirit that has no equal in any other form of human expression...