Word: mena
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...higher sugar duty brought to Washington agitated representatives of the Cuban producers. The proposal to limit the free entry of Philippine sugar to 500,000 tons per year accounted for the presence in Washington of Speaker Manuel Roxas of the Philippine House, President Pro Tempore Sergio Os-mena of the Philippine Senate, and Philippine Secretary of Agriculture Rafael Alunan. They had traveled 11,000 miles to enlist Secretary of State Stimson in a protest. The beet-sugar industry (Colorado, Wyoming, Utah) complains that it cannot meet competition from Cuba and the Philippines. To protect its market, it would raise...
...schools" similar to those she introduced in Kentucky, on the Blackfoot Indian Reservation, near Browning. Classes were begun in the Owen Heavy Breast school and in the home of one John Bull Shoe. Commonwealth College, founded three years ago by Laborites in a virgin dip of the Ozarks, near Mena, Ark., swung into action with two characteristic announcements: 1) Tuition, food, books, lodging and laundry came to $100 for the year, not including soap, tooth paste and pencils; and, "the school body dresses plainly and simply." 2) The College needed, badly, a new dictionary. Meeting at Little Rock, the American...
...Commonwealth College Fortnightly (Mena, Ark.) recently discoursed on the art of hitchhiking, i.e., the method of progressing from place to place without fare, by the simple means of cadging rides from motorists...
...high theory; furnishes proven examples of "consecutive study for its own sake" that adults might be more generally engaged in: a course at Bryn Mawr College for working girls; the Williamstown Institute; certain mountain schools in the South; a Danish folk school in Pennsylvania; Commonwealth College (for workers) at Mena, Ark.; a foremen's course in an industrial town: a study group of business executives; reading and business executives; reading and discussion groups at Amherst College; the projected education of enlisted men in the Army...
During a session of the Mexican House of Representatives, Congressman Mena Cordova of Campeche State drew a revolver and fired three shots at Lieutenant Rueda de Leon; one bullet lodged in his leg. The echoes of the shots were drowned in cries of " Viva General Calles!" "Viva de la Huerta!" Then Congressman Santa Ana engaged a "comrade" in the art of fisticuffs. The session was suspended...