Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hoover: "I have not the remotest idea, but such a suggestion is grotesque. I wonder, Mr. Chairman, if the committee is not getting down to dealing with a pretty small type of street slander...
Sixty-one per cent, believed that the idea of evolution is consistent with belief in God. Six per cent, were uncertain...
Although the pristine militancy of student government in the larger eastern colleges is now subdued, the idea's soul goes marching on, and westward. At the University of California, where it flourishes in full flower, the student council found Editor James F. Wickizer of the California Daily Bruin guilty of treason to the cause in "not conforming to the policy of constructive criticism, particularly toward the administration, which has been laid down by the council." The penalty named for further infraction of this rule was removal from office...
...branches in Manhattan an early morning last week. Behind the bank's bolted doors and copper-framed windows employes pulled themselves tense with the expectation of rushing business, and glowed with pride at the immediate success of their President Charles Edwin Mitchell's new banking idea. President Mitchell had announced that this bank (biggest in the U. S.) would loan $50 to $1,000 at 6% interest to responsible employed persons, with no other security than their own signatures and the endorsement of two respectable friends. (All such loans to be repaid within a year.) Under such conditions...
...short, despite the personal excellence of these men, it is quite obvious that they do not stand for a single definite idea. They are both actuated by a laudable desire to be president. We submit that college men as citizens have a right to demand of political parties and their leaders more than they have given there in the past. When Democrats are out, they want to get in; when Republicans are in, they fight to stay there...