Word: existences
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Iowa. The legislature of Iowa, forgiving the presidential veto of the McNary-Haugen farm bill (TIME, March 7), formally placed at the President's disposal "all the good things that do distinctly exist in the Hawkeye State." One specific good thing was the Franklin Floete estate "The Highlands." Inducements: 35 acres, fully fenced for privacy; 1,700 feet above sea-level (cool, bracing). Location: On Lake Okoboji, northern Iowa...
...trusted of Bolsheviks, and at Moscow heads the Soviet Statistical Department. His attendant stenographers and private secretary were seen, last week, to be ladies of stern, middle age, their skirts at pre-War length, their manners suggesting not at all the imaginary "free-love" conditions pretended to exist in Russia. Second in authority was Comrade Eugen Varga, a Hungarian, one-time chief adviser to the ousted Soviet dictator of Hungary, fat, spiderlike Bela Kun (dictator...
...effective. . . . But there is no politi cal immorality in attempting to coerce a government by a general strike. [Barking his words] Governments exist to be coerced! . . . As for this bill?Hrr! ?it is a loud needle for the Communist gramophone. ... It will help the Communists to breed sedition, and gag a appeal to the better natures of everyone else...
...would be difficult and perhaps impossible to force men to organize such new clubs, since there would always exist a feeling that such a club was some-how inferior to those already in existence. This is an unfortunate reality which must be faced...
...Hazing" or "initiation" has ceased to exist at U. S. universities worthy of the name; but last week at the University of Melbourne, Australia, occurred just such an outburst of gaucherie as U. S. undergraduates used to indulge in, and still do, at jerkwater colleges...