Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Institute of Politics at Williamstown, Mass. (now in session) discusses chiefly political affairs, but politics in its larger sense includes war. In this connection Professor George H. Blakeslee of Clark University, leader of one of the "round tables," discussed the situation brought about by the Washington Arms Conference in relation to a possible war with Japan, and predicted a long war?and perhaps an unsuccessful...
...August 24 Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Viscount Birkenhead and ex-Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, will lecture to the Institute of Politics at Williamstown, Mass. on Some World Problems Left by the Great War. Later he will address the American Bar Association at Minneapolis...
...TIME, July 16, appeared a notice about four great conferences held in various parts of the country. The unprecedented attendance at the Christian Workers' Conference, which opened in East Northfield, Mass., last week, draws attention to the fountainhead of the conference movement in the U. S. This annual conference was started by Dwight L. Moody. It has grown quietly from year to year, until this year over 100 are on the waiting list for accommodations, and the thousand-odd who make up the delegations that pack the auditorium come from the ends of the earth. The Rev. John Hutton...
Henry F. Sullivan of Lowell, Mass., swam the English Channel from Dover to Calais. (Although the distance was only 22.5 miles as the crow flies, he swam approximately 56 miles miles.) Sullivan, 31, made his first unsuccessful attempt to swim the channel ten years ago and has made five other unsuccessful attempts since then...
...policy of the new corporation will be to acquire new department stores in the 25¢. to $1.00 field, employing in them the same principles of mass purchasing and wholesale distribution which have been developed in the 10¢. to 25¢. stores. The new Company will be completely distinct from the old Kresge Co., but will be largely administered by its officers...