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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work is still going on. Subject to the right to retake in time of war, I recommend that this property with a location for auxiliary steam plant and rights of way be sold. . . . The agriculture of the nation needs a greater supply and lower cost of fertilizer. ... If this main object be accomplished, the amount of money received for the property is not a primary or major consideration. . . . I, therefore, recommend that the Congress appoint a small joint committee to consider offers, conduct negotiations and report definite recommendations...
...Hungary, reports of the various countries holding mandates, World Court decision on Czecho-Polish dispute; discussion of the jurists' report on how the clauses of the Covenant should be interpreted. This inquiry grew out of the Italo-Greek dispute (TIME, Sept. 10 et seq.), and is the main item on the agenda...
Some time ago Signer Gentile, Minister of Education, hatched a little plot against Italian students. The main features of the plot were: a) to make it obligatory to pass all examinations before being admitted to a higher class, and b) to limit the number of State Schools (not elementary schools) and the number of students to each course...
President Coolidge's message to the new Congress contained an allusion to the proposed Department which is not altogether explicit as to the point just raised. It is interesting, however, as indicating how important the main issue has become, and it is specific enough in regard to the availability of Federal funds-funds being always the first and last question in education. Said the President: "Having in mind that education is peculiarly a local problem and that it should always be pursued with the largest freedom of choice by students and parents, nevertheless the Federal Government might well give...
...metal, uranium. He had found that they emitted certain penetrating rays. Marie Curie took up this work, found that another element, thorium, behaved similarly, and that certain complex minerals also showed radioactivity, which was not, however, proportionate to the quantities of uranium or thorium in them. Pierre Curie, whose main researches up to that time had been on the physics of crystals (as was the early work of Louis Pasteur), became so interested that he abandoned his own work for his wife's subject. They chose the costly orefi pitchblende, and were able after much difficulty to secure several tons...