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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make it unlawful for any teacher in the universities, normal or other schools of the State which obtain state funds "to teach any theory that denies the story of the divine creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals...
...parochial and private schools is that the law was an invasion of constitutional rights, religious and otherwise. The State's argument is that the law was a legitimate extension of the State police power of compelling attendance at school. The law had been declared unconstitutional by a lower court and was carried to a higher court on the State's appeal...
Liquidation has been halted in both the grain and the stock markets. Yet evidence accumulates that, of late, production of steel and iron, gasoline, copper and other important commodities has been somewhat too brisk for the gradual development of consumption, and the trend of prices is therefore toward lower levels. Gasoline led off in this direction last week by a 1? price reduction...
...lords of Russia as the nobles were before 1917, and they are enjoying practically the same privileges. Children of workingmen receive a free education in the colleges, while those of the bourgeoisie are for the most part barred; workingmen are given the best seats in the theatres at even lower rates than the upper classes must pay; in almost every phase of life the laborer is now made to feel that he represents the ruling class of the country...
...been used as a sort of convent schoolroom and museum by the priestesses. Another building, a temple to Nin-Gal, wife of the Moon God, has also been uncovered in a corner of the compound. Some of the objects found dated from 2,500 B.C.; going down to the lower foundations, the excavators found older and older masonry, some of primitive unbaked bricks that may have been laid as early...