Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Larkin (recently deported from the U. S.), plus 100 followers, invaded Liberty Hall, Dublin, and ejected the officers of the Irish Transport Workers on the ground that they had been suspended. This is a move to regain his old ascendency over the Transport Workers. It was feared that he might start agitations against the Free State; thus his latest move only provokes the comment : " It might have been worse...
Marcel Cachin, Deputy and Leader of the French Communist Party, charged by the French Government with " crime against the internal security of the State," was released by the investigating magistrate, le Juge Jousselin, on the ground of insufficient evidence. The Government will, however, appeal against the judge's decision. Other charges are also likely to be brought against M. Cachin and his associates...
Political rights for women is part of the bunka movement. There is a bunka restaurant in Tokyo where men and women meet to discuss politics on common ground. Tennis for women is bunka, but dancing?dancing is to the Japanese too degrading to be known as bunka. Books dealing with the part women are playing in democracy are bunka novels. In other words, bunka is the thin edge of the wedge for enfranchizing the little ladies of Nippon...
...that of Dr. Goodnow have not been successful in restraining the witch hunters. The Adjutant of the American Legion in Indiana has had Muzzey's An American History and West's A History of the American People removed from the schools of that state upon the ground that the books failed to pay proper regard to the acts of Americans during the Revolution. The learned Adjutant based his objections upon reports by the Chairman of the Committee on Patriotic Education of the Sons of the American Revolution. He had apparently not examined the offending volume, for he stated...
Unless he is thoroughly indifferent to his ribbons and his glory, Charles Paddock, world's champion (American) sprinter, now in Paris, has his ear to the ground anxiously awaiting echoes from America. The echoes fall from the flying feet of Frank Hussey, of Stuyvesant High School (Manhattan), who (at the P. S. A. L. championship games, in Brooklyn) equalled the world's record of 9% in the 100-yard dash, jointly held by Paddock, Howard Drew and Dan Kelly...