Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sequences of thought apparently so divergent as the Stadium and Miss Margaret Anglin seem to have no meeting place that is not the result of hyper liberalizing the meanings of each. There has been headline material in both within the past two days: the Stadium in the settled matter of wooden seats. Miss Anglin in her plan to produce the Electra of Sophocles in the Greek temple of Roger Williams Park in Providence. Connection between these unlikes lies in the out of door drama, of which Miss Anglin is now America's greatest exponent, and of which the Stadium...
...Griest Bill-reducing postal rates on second, third and fourth class matter and restoring the one-cent postcard. Publishers and by-mail advertisers were pleased. The reductions will cut Post Office revenues some...
Democrats sat back to see what decision the Republican 1,089 delegates, all of whom were now chosen, would come to among themselves. The votes of 545 would settle the matter, but with many a delegate unpledged, many another uncertain, many another unaccredited, the result could not be figured out to a mathematical certainty on paper. Last week's odds in Wall Street were...
...every other day. But there is no outcry, except among the politicos. The politicos lately passed a bill repealing their harshest prohibition. Last fortnight Governor Horace Mann Towner vetoed the act and repeated that cockfighting is "a barbarous and cruel sport." But people said the law would not matter one way or the other. The jibaro pays no attention, saving his breath for the secret pit, the dashing fury of his little bird, the hot argument or epic narrative afterward...
Questions. Up before the Council were three vital questions upon which it had delayed to act for months or years: 1) Shall the Rumanian Government pay compensation for lands expropriated by it from Hungarian citizens? (TIME, Sept. 26); 2) Should the League fix responsibility and apply censure in the matter of the Italian arms which were smuggled into Hungary in defiance of the Treaty of Trianon? (TIME, March 5); 3) Shall the Baltic city of Vilna belong to Poland (now holding it by authority of the Allied Council of Ambassadors); or to Lithuania (which received Vilna from Soviet Russia under...