Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great Britain with the approval of the King of England and we have been thanked by prime ministers for the help Denver has furnished them through my court." The work of the Juvenile Court of Denver has been studied by sociologists everywhere; has exerted a strong influence on the nation's Juvenile Court system as it stands today...
...that the law under which she was convicted was undoubtedly constitutional, but that "abnormal conditions attending the trial" greatly influenced the jury and that "under ordinary circumstances" the case never would have been prosecuted. These latter remarks presumably referred to the fact that in 1919-20 the U. S. nation engaged in a widespread Radical-hunt, and "Bolsheviki" became a common epithet for one small boy to hurl at another...
...what extent has Canada progressed since her Constitution became operative 60 years ago? Significant facts: 1) The land which was "our Dominion" to Queen Victoria, in fact as well as phrase, is now a great nation, legally co-equal in political status with Great Britain, and independent within the British Commonwealth. 2) During the Jubilee period the population of Canada has increased from 3,500,000 to 9,500,000; railways from 2,278 miles of track to 40,000; industrial capital from $77,000,000 to $3,000,000,000; and occupied farm lands from 30,000,000 acres...
Died. Charles Wesley Simmons, 79, onetime sheriff; from a paralytic stroke, in Wichita, Kan. He many times arrested Carrie Nation, famed militant Prohibitionist, was made miserable by her hatchet crusades (TIME...
...cost, according to U. S. Government figures for the academic year 1923-24, $140,000,000 to operate the schools of the nation. Of this student tuition and related fees paid less than half. A quarter came from endowments; another quarter from gifts...