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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just one thing and that is to invade the strike zone with the armed forces of the state and, obviously, this should only be done where the disorder amounts to rioting and bloodshed and the local authorities are unable to maintain law and order. Such action would, of course, mean the end of the strike, and as far as the strikers are concerned the loss of their cause...
What did it mean? The correspondents of all the great news agencies at Rome cabled that "a trustworthy source" had supplied them with tidings of a secret pact between Greece and Italy, said to envision the ousting of Turkey from her Aegean and Mediterranean possessions between Constantinople and the port of Adalia (east of Rhodes...
...freshman year must prepare men to get the most out of the three years which follow it, which are really what we mean by the college education proper. The freshman year is frankly the year of training, and we try to jam the transition from school to college into one year in order that each student may have three years of college work of a university character...
...nose, now healing under a brown coat of iodine from the wound inflicted by a mad Irishwoman (TIME, April 12). The correspondents reported that, as often as Signor Mussolini's finger drew unconsciously near the afflicted organ, his iron will caused him to drop his hand-no mean feat, as all whose noses have itched can testify...
...United States Steel corporation in danger of being outclassed by other corporations headed by younger men? Isn't it possible that the directing heads of the United States Steel corporation are too old in view of the staid and stolid policies of the management? I mean this of course in the kindest...