Word: facing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five to four decision, ruled that states can regulate only businesses involving public utilities or morals, that theatre ticket scalping* does not come under either of these classifications, that the New York law limiting scalpers' charges to 50c in advance of the rate printed on the face of the ticket is unconstitutional. This decision reversed a lower court opinion and ended the case of Tyson & Brother, United Theatre Ticket Offices, Inc. v. New York State officials...
...asked Mr. Franklin, can Secretary Mellon be honestly called debt-reduction-wonderman in face of the facts that "in the months from Aug. 31, 1919, to Dec. 31, 1920, the debt was reduced by 2.6 billions under Mr. Mellon's predecessors; and that the best Mr. Mellon was able to do was to reduce it by 2.1 billions in the three years from Dec. 31, 1920, to Dec. 31, 1923, and by 2.8 billions in the three years from...
From the Turkish city of Trebizond (equivalent to a U. S. Fundamentalist stronghold) news came last week that pious women have found a way to circumvent the recent law that all Turkish women must go about with their faces naked. Since the Government of President Mustafa Kemal Pasha has ravished from Turkish womenfolk the veil, Mohammedan "Fundamentalists" in Trebizond adopted last week the umbrella. Determined to protect modesty, they walked in rain or sunshine with only eyes peeping above umbrellas held flat against face and body...
Three years ago on March 20 Charles William Eliot stepped out on the temporary wooden platform in front of University Hall to face three thousand students filling the quadrangle from John Harvard's statue to the steps of Hollis Hall. To them he left his last legacy of advice, wisdom garnered in ninety years of life...
...point is well taken, and if the opposition is as strong as certain indications give every reason to believe the Administration owes it to alumni and undergraduates and above all to the fallen dead, to face it with something more tangible than a mysterious silence. Nothing could be more unfortunate than a memorial which does not bind firmly, and in the terms most intelligible to post-war Harvard, the honor and the lesson of the dead with the work and ideals of the living...