Word: memorandum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator James C. Couzens, progressive ex-Mayor of Detroit and suc- cessor to Mr. Newberry, declared in a public memorandum that demagogues throughout the country are magnifying the difficulties under which railways are operating. The public is being offered the choice of wage reductions for railway men or increased railway tariffs. Reduction of wages is an obvious saving for railway executives to suggest. " Why," suggested the Senator, " don't they do a little brain work to produce the necessary saving by increased railroad efficiency...
...applied in several colleges, is the publishing each year of a complete bibliography of the books used in the various courses given by the faculty. The changes from year to year, particularly in the sciences, would keep pace with the most recent pogrress in the different fields. Such a memorandum would give adherents of the much-touted and much-maligned "fifteen-minutes-a-day" system, a definite foundation to work upon, without which the whole idea collapses. It would serve as a powerful stimulant, and as each man could do as much or as little as he chose, there would...
...Secretary of State for India, that the newspapers owe the recent revelation of the state of affairs in that province--a state of affairs hitherto concealed rather carefully. It appears that Montagu, regarding the Moslem element as the dominating force in India, published a few days ago a memorandum of the Indian Government which explained the demands made by the Kaliphat, or Moslem movement; including the restoration to the Turk of Constantinople, Thrace, and Smyrna, and the submission of the holy places of Islam--Jerusalem and Mecca--to the authority of the Sultan. The publication of such demands just before...
...disorganization during the war, "The University Date Book" was forgotten and it has not been dusted off since. But the conflict that has arisen recently between important events proves the continued necessity for such a general memorandum of dates...
...American Secretary for the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, Professor Frank Aydelotte, A.M. '03, of the Institute of Technology, calls attention to the fact that since the 1920 memorandum of regulations for the Rhodes Scholarships was printed, the University of Oxford has abolished the requirement of the Greek language for admission and for all degrees...