Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grant of supreme executive power to President Emilio Portes Gil in revising the criminal code may surely appear to most as a drastic reform. Considering the national peculiarities of the country, however, any discussion of the particular measures should prove of interest and even of value. The substitution of expert alienists in place of a jury system has at least the ultramodern touch; the alleviation of fines to suit the individual income of the prisoner though departing from the stern unswerving rigors of the usual courts of justice, seems in line with proper social ethics; whereas the last important item...
Visiting over 40 Harvard Clubs and gatherings scattered throughout the nation, the film produced for the Harvard Alumni Association by the University Film Foundation traveled several thousand miles last year. One print of the film was sent west, where it was shown as far away as Hawaii, before a group of Harvard men there. Another traveled to South America, where it was shown by R. W. Bliss '00, Ambassador to the Argentine. A third copy was carried to China by Professor J. M. Woods, who was present at the dedication ceremonies of Yenching University, near Peiping...
...purpose of the donors is expressed in a statement that they gave the fund "in the belief that the artistic development of a given nation in architecture, sculpture, and painting should be studied as an integral part of national life, closely allied to social conditions, intellectual tendencies, and literary movements...
...chili con carne, she asked God to forgive the owner for tempting U. S. appetites with foreign dishes. She objected to the tobacco trade-name "Bull Durham" because bulls were manifestly no tobacco users. When she was jailed, a follower wrote to the judge: "We now propose if Mrs. Nation is held longer, to raise the greatest army of women the world has ever known and wipe man out of existence...
...Significance. Nearly every action of Carry Nation's career provoked in the public mind a lurid distortion of the saloon of her times. She was one of Prohibition's prime instigators. Author Asbury has done her the justice of weighty, lively, analysis...