Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about the date of this proceeding, the American Hotel Association convened at Cleveland, heard the Chairman of its "Educational Committee," John McFerlane Howie, declare: "The prohibition law raised the hotelkeeper from the level of saloonkeeper and placed him on a level with any other legitimate business man. His business today is better than ever before...
...organized banking interests which own the railroads, control credit and dominate the industrial life of the nation, will further oppress labor, rob the consumer, and, by extortionate railroad rates and dictation of the terms of credit, reduce agriculture to the level of the European peasantry, if longer permitted to control this Government...
Under the progressive principle of cooperation, that government is deemed best which offers to the many the highest level of average happiness and wellbeing...
...obstacles in the way of borrowing other people's clothes, will be smoothed out as though with a flatiron. Dress manufacturing will be standardized, and mail order hourses will be concerned only with width, style, and pattern. Even the annual parade of the street-cleaners will be orderly and level-headed...
...kind of men that go into it will determine what it is to become and what its practical or its less tangible rewards are to be. Harvard has done much, in the character of the teachers that she has sent out, to raise the calling to a high level. Undergraduates, with full realization of the nature of the job, would do well to consider the need and their desire and fitness to help meet it. Let them talk with professors in the subjects that they may desire to teach and then consult with the University Appointment Office about possibilities