Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ensued. Denials, contradictions, and corrections only added to the confusion and at last Mr. Daugherty took up the cudgels, armed with an injunction. But the court refused to grant the injunction, and now Mr. Hylan has entered the breach, heedless of the aphorism that "fools rush in where angels fear to tread". In a proclamation on Saturday the Mayor declared that "the government has failed to help us. Let us help ourselves", and called "on all good citizens in their homes to observe Monday of each week as 'Sugarless Monday...
...selection of her successor. Inasmuch as an Anglo-Saxon has been President of the organization since its inception, it is thought advisable to elect a "Latin " woman as the next President. International politics, however, will play its part. If a French or Italian woman were elected there is fear that the German women might be alienated. Mrs. Maud Wood Park, President of the National League of Women Voters and delegate to the Convention from the United States, predicted that the next President of the Alliance would be a South American woman...
This Article 27, together with Article 33, has been the basis of the new freedom of Mexico because it has given the land back to Mexicans. Hitherto, Obregon has been unable to yield on it for fear of being accused of " selling out to America...
...German students to the University for a stay of a week or so. A similar scheme at Oxford roused a good deal of opposition, but as the Cambridge scheme does not confine itself to Germans, but hopes to embrace students of all other nationalities, there seems little reason to fear any violent antagonism...
...swim from graduating has at last achieved dramatic importance. Miss Bernice Goldstein, of Oneonta, N. Y., a member of the scholastic fraternity of Phi Beta Kappa, will be unable to graduate because she cannot learn to swim. Whether the rule is due to love of Greek culture or fear of an-other flood is not known...