Word: infante
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obscure points in the process of industrial development--the rearing of our Infant Industries--has apparently been solved by Chairman Lasker of the Shipping Board. All through the history of the United States the student is confronted with the problem of Infant Industries. He learns that it is the duty of our legislators to nurture such struggling native enterprise, the very life of which is dependent upon favorable tariff. But professors and books alike all fail to relate what becomes of the little venturers if they thrive under government care. And the student is finally obliged to adopt the conclusion...
...study of vitamines is of primary importance to the dietitian, to the infant specialist, and to the physician dealing with certain diseases, but its interest to the public is due to the mysterious nature of the substances. The belief in the supernatural is even now highly prevalent and other things being even, appeals to that belief usually bring results. The peculiar, mysterious properties of the vitamines has popularized them and they have been swallowed hook, line, bob, and sinker by the public...
...heavy responsibility on the culpable shoulders of the members of the Board of Health, or if the success of these gentlemen in keeping the number down to such a low figure as one hundred entitles them to the gratitude of the whole body of citizens. Is the infant mortality in the city very low as a result of the conscientious and progressive work of the health authorities or very high because of their poor work? In cases like these two, it may be that we can come to a fair judgment in the matter by comparing the figures...
While the provisional government of Ireland is struggling to set up the administrative organization of the new Free State, Eamonn De Valera for so long styled its "President" is sulking in Paris. While the majority of Irishmen are uniting in an effort to put the infant republic on its feet, their erstwhile leader is busy organizing an International Irish League which is to start a new campaign to "obtain the absolute Independence of Ireland". He who was once the "white hope" of Irishmen--at home and abroad--has become the more spokesman of a few malcontents...
...menace to the peace of the world that the countries represented at Washington cannot come to an agreement regarding the most just and pressing question confronting the Chinese government today--that of an increase in revenue. Not only is the Chinese government sorely in demand for money, but her infant industries need a reasonable amount of protection. These are rights which are undeniably due the Chinese people, unless the integrity of their country is to continue to be a baseless sham...