Word: learne
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...border in Tennessee, officials of the American Bemberg and Glanzatoff mills, where labor troubles began last spring simultaneous with the Carolina strikes, got the employes to cast anonymous ballots for or against another strike, to test the sentiment. They reported 2,883 votes against striking, 255 for. Observers could learn no connection between the Bemberg and Glanzatoff labor situation and the discovery last week that the acting President of these mills was on his bed, with his wrists slashed, dead. In Rockhill, S. C., the United Textile Workers held a conference, proclaimed "No Communists wanted here," announced their firm intention...
...State's attorney appealed the case, to learn what he should do about the suits against the textbook commissioners and the 25 publishers. Meanwhile Mr. Sampson's prosecutors and the publishers reflected on the commercial aspects of the spread of culture...
...school the millionheiresses will balance books, study stock-picking, learn to discriminate between a swindle and a sure thing. But, "As it is not the object of Webber College to fit women for secretarial positions, it does not include any form of shorthand writing in its curriculum...
...those who desire to learn more specifically the grounds of this resentment, there is opportunity tonight to hour at Ford Hall men whose scholarship and experience fit them to speak with authority on the subject. The meeting will be one of the first attempts in this vicinity to make a reasonable and intelligent protest against what is now considered the abuse of censorship. Hitherto when a popular play or book has been banned, the only effect has unfortunately been a good deal of mud-slinging by those on either side of the question, without any effort to fight on common...
...background of tradition which colors the whole subsequent life of the institution. More tangible perhaps are the various endowments and memorials which devoted followers establish in order to perpetuate the ideals which some great teacher strove to make part of the lives of those who came to him to learn. Such was the peculiarly appropriate founding of the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry; such also is the present endowment of a Chair of German Art and Culture...