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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Because economic sanctions against an aggressor nation would be useless while so many nations, U. S., Germany, Russia, Turkey, etc.) were nonLeague members, for the reason that the effect would be to divert the trade of an outlawed aggressor from the signatory to the non-signatory states of the Protocol...
...address the brisk medicos. He told about the struggles to get a good medical school started in Canada. Others spoke on such topics as the progress of medical education in the U. S. in the last 25 years, improved methods of teaching, medical education of the public, etc. At last someone asked the question : "Why are the doctors leaving the country? Where is the rural practitioner?" The discussion ambled along; listeners caught, in its labored periods, the clip-clop of slow hoofs, the rattle of a dry axle, saw, in the rutted lane of the imagination, a buggy swaying along...
...Cabinet members had already arrived. At 10:40, the White House guests, with the Dawes children, entered several closed motorcars and were driven away to the Capitol. A dozen cars carrying the Congressional Inaugural Committee, Cabinet members, aids, etc., lined up in the White House driveway. The President and the Vice President emerged from the White House and paused to be photographed. Mrs. Coolidge appeared in a modish ensemble suit of moonstone gray, "joseema" cloth (a sort of cross between duvetyn and kasha), with a gray fox collar. Her hat was likewise gray with a trimming of burnt goose feathers...
...Increases of postal charges, estimated to yield $60,000,000 a year, effective Apr. 15, and consisting, in chief, of an increase from 1c to 2c on postcards; practically no change on second-class mail (newspapers and periodicals) except that the rates on religious, educational, scientific, etc., publications was increased 1/4c a pound to equal the rate on reading matter in other publications; an increase from 1c to 1 1/2c on each two ounces of third-class matter (books, circulars, etc.) ; a service charge of 2c apiece on parcels post...
Sikhism is the world's newest great religion; is, in many respects, the world's purest. Its locale is Northwestern India (Punjab, etc.) and its personnel, about 2,000,000-a sturdy, rugged, effectual type not found elsewhere in the Indian Empire...