Word: existing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stipulation of the law whereby Roumanians (Hungarians and former Hungarian citizens) who have "forgotten" their mother tongue must send their children to Roumanian schools. And the same situation obtains in Czeckoslovakia and Jugoslavia. It means that the Hungarian schools in these three countries step by step cease to exist, and all Hungarians are compelled to attend the national schools of the respective successor states. The minority treaty concluded, for instance, between the Allied and Associated Powers and Roumania on December 9th, 1919, declared that the racial linguistic and religious minorities are entitled to maintain schools and that the state must...
...freedom of the Harvard undergraduate to shift for himself intellectually, unsupervised except for the minimum of requirements. Behind this talk there has been much action that is courageous and liberal. But the College must go the whole way. There can be no halt-way measures, but they will exist as long as there exists the school of instruction which works out its effect in the pressure of insistent minor requirements...
...make intelligent recommendations based on the two foregoing characteristics. The rewards in such a field are probably not as great as in the sales department; at the same time there is probably not the same tremendous pressure placed upon those who are functioning in this field. The rewards do exist however, in this field and men entering it have the same general opportunity that they do in any of the other divisions...
...only question that remains is whether such practical considerations outbalance the more doubtful equities of government as they exist under present conditions in Mexico. With elections usually only a mockery of free balloting, the party in power cannot be ousted save by military force, and in the past whenever enough of the army could be induced to desert and there was suillicient popular discontent this has been the result...
...sawed-off shotguns and racketeering in lotteries conducted by the President himself. An answer was received from Ricardo Herrera, the President's secretary: "Honorable President Machado grants no importance to these matters which tend to create unjustified alarm while absolute peace and faith in its government and President exist in all the nation. . . As to the absolute untruthfulness of this information, the President would prefer that you apply for an opinion to the American embassy, or to any other member of the American colony, such as bankers, merchants, presidents of corporations...