Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manager and Chief Executive of the City of Cincinnati. The author of the above mentioned editorial seems to take great pleasure in disparaging prominent citizens whose success has been acquired through industry. Moreover, there are a number of gross misstatements in the article, and I feel now that this matter has been called to your attention, that you will, in all fairness, make proper and due apology for the above mentioned article...
...Eagle hardly a month away, the Sixth Pan-American Congress at Havana has so far discussed two points of importance in the western hemisphere, and has reached a deadlock on both points. The Pan-American method of settling such deadlocks amicably for both sides is a happy one. The matter is first threshed out around the conference table. After two, sometimes three days of eulogy, defamation and near duelling, the matter is put into the hands of a sub-committee. Sub-committees are selected for their impartiality, directly measurable in terms of their unfamiliarity with the subject...
...matters of moment the United States delegation has already incurred the enmity of the other representatives. In the first matter, all the Pan-American delegates advocated the abolishment of United States policing of the Caribbean. The fear of the United States for an unprotected Panama Canal and Nicaraguan canal route essentially loomed, however, as a virtual demand that the controversy be disposed of in the traditional manner. The other dispute was over the intention of President Coolidge, at this session, to include under new immigration laws the countries of the New as well as of the Old World. Any such...
...exhibition is held in connection with Professor P. J. Sachs' course in Museum Problems which presents the practical and theoretical sides of museum work and trains students for this profession. The exhibition is entirely the work of students, no assistance having been given by the Faculty in the matter of selection or arrangement...
Building proposals have before this caused a sharp split. One need only name the War Memorial controversy which is still raging or the objections raised a few years ago when the new Business Schoool group was undertaken. Ordinarily, perhaps, the raising of a new building is purely a practical matter: a need exists for a building, say a new lecture hall, and the building is put up without dissent. It is when the practical clashes with an ideal, or with that immaterial substance known as sentiment that there arises disagreement, and sometimes bitter controversy...