Word: movement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Young was one of the world's leading economists, an authority on markets, tariffs, distribution, obstacles to the free movement of trade, and export and import problems. He was head of the Department of Economics at Harvard until 1927, when he went to England to become professor of political economy in the University of London. At the time of his death, he held a prominent place at Geneva as president of the sub-committee on commerce and marketing problems of the preparatory committee, for the international economic conference of the League of Nations...
...Gardner Murray, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U. S., is, however, president ex officio, and the society claims to represent more than 1,500 of the Episcopal clergy. The society has always denied having an official character, notably in 1917 when it championed the Prohibition movement. Last week, however, as for some time past, the Society attacked Prohibition...
...government considers that Seņor de la Mora is in open rebellion, since the place in which he keeps himself is not even known, and that he is one of the probable directors of the armed movement of Catholic fanatics in the State of Jalisco...
...school children and flighty stenographers would spoil countless sheets headed January 29 or August 30. Busy executives would dictate letters beginning, "Yours of the 30th instant received and contents noted." Thus paper men saw paper-profits. One of the convention delegates suggested as a campaign song for the new movement, "Will you love me in December...
...interest in the movement sponsored by this organization is well indicated by the fact that over 1100 people of Cambridge and Boston attended the current exhibition during the first week it has been on display...