Word: openness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Illinois, who is said to have found such tactics compatible, even necessary, to the building of an efficient political machine. Of course, a good politician must be magnanimous and appeal to every stratum of society, but until Mrs. Ferguson has shown some such lofty motive her position is open to censure...
First place in the annual competition for the Topiarian Club trophy, open to students in the School of Landscape Architecture, was awarded last night to H. B. Campbell 3S.L.A. of Columbus, Ohio...
...President of the Society of Free Thinkers recently brought suit against the New York Board of Education because one hour from every public school week has been left open for religious education of any sort the parents of pupils may choose. This parochial instruction, furthermore, is optional. It seems to us that it is rather an anomalous sort of free thinking which attempts to curtail parents' right of choice in the matter of their offspring's religious education. Free and anti-religious are not generally considered synonymous...
Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira and other prominent Japanese who went to meet the Prince shut their eyes to avoid witnessing the undignified spectacle of a descendant of the Sun Goddess slithering down a steep, icy gangplank. Assistant Secretary of State J. Butler Wright kept his eyes open, greeted Prince Chichibu, and saw that the revenue cutter on which he was taken off the Majestic borrowed a Japanese flag from the liner and ran it up while a salute of 21 guns boomed from the shore...
When Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick accepted the call to the Park Avenue Baptist Church, he made three conditions: that the Church should erect a new building near Columbia University, should open its membership to all Christians regardless of dogma and should not insist upon the principle of Baptism by immersion. The Church agreed. It would go a long way to get Dr. Fosdick, the most celebrated pulpit-orator of his generation...