Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relatives at home. Graduation exercises were held last week, at which "certificates of progress" were given to parents and "certificates of service" were given to children. The desire to improve a parent seems to be strong, for as many as three thousand pupils have applied for jobs. Those who obtain them agree to teach 15 minutes a day or one hour on Saturday and Sunday, and it is believed by Americanizers that the foreign colony language problem will in this way be quickly solved. The names of some of the pupil-teachers are Mollie Tar-takoff, Lillie Eigengold, Solomon Schneidmill...
...more than a realization that a democratic heart can beat under silks and ribbands, it is necessary to obtain efficiency in American diplomatic circles. It seems self-evident that ambassadors should be selected upon the basis of ability and experience. No effective reform, however, can be instituted until Congressmen realize the value of a trained diplomatic service. Perhaps the failure of the Versailles treaty will point the moral, for it was definitely a pact written by politicians who had to arrange the provisions to humor their constituencies. The first improvement should be the raising of diplomats' salaries to the point...
...conference at Goucher was called in an attempt to obtain an expression of collegiate opinion on the League of Nations...
...Turks cleverly wrung from the Allies at a conference where they were assumed to be a conquered nation. Dr. Gates, President of Rebort College in Constantinople, writes: "The Turks were determined to become sovereign in their own domain and they were willing and prepared to, fight in order to obtain this sovereignty, which the Allies were...
...hope to approach these gentleman, and with their cooperation obtain evidence which will help to establish the telepathic theory...