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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ample opportunity to reject the House Plan if it saw fit to do so. The Committee of Instruction, the governing body within the Faculty, knew of the House Plan before the Faculty did and gave its details unanimous approval. This fact strengthens the official cause, even providing the minimum of time and consideration were given the matter by the bodies as a whole. The significant but unfortunate thing is that the authorities should have to take the defensive side of the issue at this crucial stage of the game. If Professor Hall's letter aids in awakening them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOMERANG | 3/16/1929 | See Source »

...improvement as a whole would increase the park and play ground area, would relieve traffic congestion, would tie in with other traffic arteries which are being planned, would complete the park system along the Basin, and would do all this at a minimum cost as compared with street widenings or park construction in more built-up parts of the district. It would add greatly to the beauty of the Basin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Killam Discusses Proposals to Alter Charles River and Basin | 3/14/1929 | See Source »

...final "scientific" figures, showing what would happen under National Origins. No great numerical difference would mark the change. At present the 2% quota system admits about 164,000 immigrants per year. Under National Origins about 153,000 aliens-150,000 as set in the law, plus the 100 minimum allowance to all countries-would come in. There would, however, be a marked change in the composition of U. S. immigration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: National Origins | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Disquieting to all Europeans was Dagblad's assertion that Belgium stands committed to mobilize a minimum of 600,000 men, and France a minimum of 1,200,000 for immediate joint action to repel aggression against either state by Germany, Italy or Spain. Such an agreement-declared by Dagblad to run for 25 years-might indeed stir profound uneasiness. But worse still, according to Dagblad, the General Staffs of France and Belgium plan to seize the offensive, in any future war with Germany, by advancing their troops across the Dutch province of Limburg. Thus Limburg would be "violated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Peace & Limburg Threatened | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Sonora divorces are not expensive as such things go. About $1,500 is the minimum service charge, but Señor del Toro charges some clients $10,000 or more. Thus a cheap Sonora divorce would cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Divorce Tycoon | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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