Word: movement
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During Charles Evans Hughes' term as Secretary of State there was a movement to take the Islands out of War Department jurisdiction and turn them over to the State Department. Secretary Hughes expressed no eagerness for the additional responsibility, and the idea was finally dropped. Last fortnight when General Wood called on the President at Custer Park (TIME, July 4) the transfer scheme was presumably revived, and shortly following the conference the President made his transfer suggestion...
...Klux Klan, will shortly go on trial, along with the City Comptroller, his brother-in-law, for political corruption in the 1925 election. The Indianapolis election was generally interpreted as the end of "Klan rule" in Indiana, though there was very little organized opposition to the City Manager movement...
...doing Mr. Herrick forcibly directed the attention of U. S. citizens to that great movement called L'Art Moderne-for the steamer Ile de France in her interior decor is the work of almost a dozen of the greatest French exponents of this new species of art-an art now available in the U. S. only through one or two of Manhattan's smartest decorators...
Such men are those Harvard graduates who have returned to China to lead a great national movement against the policies of American and foreign financiers and concessionaires. With them should be classed such a modern Marco Polo as Fan Noli '12 that strange Bishop, General, ex-Premier, soldier of fortune and scholar of Albania. Yesterday's Associated Press dispatches carry the news that he has originated and signed a Bolshevist manifesto, which may embroil the Balkans in one of their periodic convulsions. But what is seldom mentioned in such dispatches is the fact that he has for more than...
...issue of April 18 the Yale Daily News anticipated a movement already set afoot to arrange a second annual joint concert of the combined Harvard and Yale glee clubs, not to take the place of the informal meeting before the football game in the fall. . . . Having so much in common both in tradition and in modern tendency", commented the News. "It is unfortunate that the Yale and Harvard clubs do not come into contact except in the informal joint concert the evening of the Yale-Harvard football game. . . . Since this does not provide an opportunity for a presentation...