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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...returns to his office and devotes the afternoon until about 6:00 p. m. to studying reports, etc. The only conferences during the afternoon are such as may be desirable with members of the Cabinet...
Britain today is potentially not less wealthy than she was before the War. She can grant enormous credits to her Dominions and Colonies in the shape of materials. Materials, such as machinery, rails, structural steel, cement, etc., would call for increased labor in the Dominions to put 'them to practical use and thereby increase production or real worth. The Dominions would then be placed in a position to repay the credits granted to them by the Mother Country. The house of cards falls, however, unless the Dominions are assured of a market for their increased production. That is what...
Although Turkey became master of her own house when the Allies marched out (TIME, Oct. 15), it was still incumbent upon her to put that house in order: the Turkification of Constantinople has started. Foreign languages are taboo and all signs, cinematograph titles, notices, etc., are to be printed in the Turkish language. The authorities stated that the Turkish language would soon be dominant " even in the European quarter...
Allan Armstrong Hunter, California student at Union Theological ,Seminary, has found a voice. A contributor to magazines, he makes (in The Forum) this point: the young priest or preacher is not interested in debates about theological dogma (virgin birth, etc.); the young priest is interested in questions which he scarcely dares face, and those are the questions of " social justice." Are the rich too rich; the poor too poor? Since the church does so little to educate young men and women to marry intelligently, has it a right to forbid divorce? Birth control? Perhaps H. G. Wells is right...
...Bureau in the four trades that are now appropriating funds for its research--three retail and one wholesale--last year totaled more than one billion dollars. Already this year more than twenty-seven hundred problems have been collected, on labor, factory management, advertising, retail-store practice, banking, foreign trade, etc. Doctor Copeland says that the difference between busines and law is that law is six hundred years ahead of business in recording decisions. But the University workers are confident that as we go along further it will be found that investigators can get better evidence for business decisions than will...