Word: movement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator. Frank Leslie Smith, the U. S. Senator-elect whom the U. S. Senate declared unseatable last winter, was thrust still farther aside by Otis F. Glenn, a young downstate lawyer. But Mr. Glenn's backer, hero of the great R-e-f-o-r-m movement, was thick-lensed U. S. Senator Charles Samuel Deneen, who, only a few months ago, was in league to get Smith seated. This shift was but one of the inconsistencies in Champion Deneen's campaign...
...present political disintegration of their country, wished last week that great Yuan Shih-kai might rise as a towering cohesive force from his open tomb in Honan. So great and national was his prestige that during the last year of his life and of his Presidency (1916) a movement to proclaim him Emperor and seat him on the Dragon Throne failed by the narrowest of margins. When the Chinese Revolution broke, in 1911, Yuan Shih-kai, then Viceroy of Hunan and Hupeh, declared with prophetic vision: "Chaos will ensue. . . . For several decades there will be no peace in China...
Sylvia Pankhurst's sister Christabel, also a onetime "militant," has recently announced that she is "now active in the movement for heralding the personal and visible Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, as foreshown by the present signs of the times...
...This movement was accelerated recently when Prime Minister Baldwin made known that he had appointed a Commission to decide whether the Stevenson Plan should remain in effect (TiitfE, March 19). The hint thus given that the Plan was cracking caused the price of rubber to bound down and brought a heavy slump in the shares of British rubber companies. Therefore the pronouncement of Prime Minister Baldwin, last week, was expected, and merely served final notice that his committee has decided that the Stevenson Plan is unworkable and must be scrapped...
...seriously interferes with the work of the more capable students. If the "capacity test" can reduce the enormous percentage of failures at Columbia it will have solved a major problem of the leading law schools. Besides, the providing of better educational opportunities for the good men is an outstanding movement in academic institutions throughout the country. The "capacity test" of the Columbia Law School, in this respect, is just an extension of the "psychological test" administered by Columbia University to entrants and the "scholastic aptitude test", a regular part of undergraduate entrance machinery at Princeton and Yale, but employed only...