Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statement just issued, a group of 101 professors of 43 colleges and universities, and one representative of the World Peace Foundation, urged the United States to arbitrate its controversy with Mexico over the Mexican alien land and oil laws. T. N. Carver, C. H. Haring '07, Professor of Latin American History at the University, C. H. Haskins '07 Professor of History and Political Science and F. W. Taussig '70, Professor of Economics, were the petitioners from Harvard University...
...This dispute threatens the friendly relations which should continue to exist between the two neighboring peoples. President Calles has already stated unofficially that Mexico is willing to submit certain aspects of the Mexican-American controversy over the alien land and oil laws to the permanent court of arbitration at The Hague. Such a course would be clearly in accord with the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and of the convention of The Hague. It is compatible with the nature of the difference, since at the root of the difficulty lies a clearly justiciable question--that of the infringement of the property...
...Native Land...
Then arguments of the 101 college professors who have signed a statement in favour of immediate arbitration with Mexico on the question of alien land rights are very much to the point. These men feel that immediate action is necessary before the issue "becomes one of national pride and sentiment", and before "feeling may be aroused which will make impossible the judicial settlement now possible." Professorial arguments may not have been of much influence in United States foreign politics, but at least they cannot be regarded as emanating from men who are uninformed...
...named James Ward Packard who took his mechanical engineering knowledge back to Warren, Ohio, his birthplace, and put it to work. Last week Lehigh University acknowledged the receipt, from James Ward Packard, of the largest single bequest since its initial gifts and endowment (two millions and 60 acres of land in South Bethlehem, Pa.) from Asa Packer - a million-dollar engineering laboratory that was to be the world's "finest." The similarity of the names Packer and Packard " was sheerest coincidence but not so the careers behind them. Asa Packer was successively carpenter's apprentice, canal-boat owner...