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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dean A. W. West of Princeton, president of the American Classical League, which has been conducting a three-year investigation along this line. "There are many signs in the colleges of an increasing interest in both Latin and Greek," reads the report in part. Of course, this does not mean that concerning many, or any, of the students it may be said, in the language of Butler's Hudibras, that...
...spread throughout the music centres of the East (TIME, Sept. 1) has been checked at its source. The players' salaries are to be increased from 7 1/2% to 10%.- The agreement will be in force for one year, after which another squabble will be in good order. Mean- while, Chicago musicians are the highest paid in the world. Weekly they collect a minimum of $72.10, a maximum...
...Purcell, Chairman of the Congress, said in answer that the Council of the Congress had already decided to ask the Amsterdam Internationale to issue invitations to call such a conference at which Russians could be present. This was taken to mean that Brit ish trades unionism would cooperate with Russians upon an equal basis but would not permit the latter to dominate or dictate...
This was taken to mean that the Constitution would be changed only to take into account the press and the labor organizations and the right of women to vote. Modification of the King's power or any change in Senate or Chamber was forbidden...
...will be a mean line in that racy American language he knows so well. . . . You can depend on one thing?the letters will be crammed full of speed, zip, pep and go! A guy who could write a song out of a flock of bugle calls and help win a war will write some letter?the kind that will make you shout...